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  5. Child Item 6: Tufted Puffin Chick Diets, North Pacific and Bering Sea, 2012-2014

Child Item 6: Tufted Puffin Chick Diets, North Pacific and Bering Sea, 2012-2014

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2012-08-03
End Date
2014-08-16

Citation

Schoen, S.K., Heflin, B., Piatt, J.F., Arimitsu, M.L., Drew, G.S., Douglas, D.C., and Renner, M., 2018, Marine ecology near Tufted Puffin colonies across the Aleutian Archipelago and Alaska Peninsula, 2012-2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TQ60GV.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TQ60GV This dataset describes Tufted Puffin chick diets in August 2012-14 in the North Pacific and Bering Sea. Data on puffin chick-meals were collected to characterize forage communities and determine meal energy density. This dataset contains chick diet data and consist of: date, location, species, mass, total length, fork length and comments.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
Sarah K Schoen, Brielle M. Heflin, John F Piatt, Mayumi Arimitsu
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
USGS ScienceBase Team
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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TuftedPuffin_ChickDiet_NorthPacifc_BeringSea_2012-2014_metadata.xml
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TuftedPuffin_ChickDiet_NorthPacifc_BeringSea_2012-2014.csv 533.25 KB text/csv
TuftedPuffin_ChickDiet_NorthPacifc_BeringSea_2012-2014_metadata.html 67.1 KB text/html
TuftedPuffin_ChickDiet_Taxonomy_NorthPacifc_BeringSea_2012-2014.csv 4.46 KB text/csv

Purpose

Seabirds are strongly shaped by the energetic constraints they face in supplying food to their chicks at centralized colonies while foraging for patchily distributed prey in surrounding waters. Using puffin diets as indicators of forage fish communities, we assessed spatial variation in forage fish community structure, and compared chick meals between colonies and ecoregions to determine how they differed with prey number, biomass, energy density, and species richness.

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