Dataset: Counts of prey species found in harbor seal scat samples collected in the San Juan Islands from 2005-2008 (Seal_response_to_prey project)

Final no updates expectedDOI: 10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.3817.1Version 1 (2012-12-13)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Lead Principal Investigator: Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez (Western Washington University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Jeffrey F Bromaghin (United States Geological Survey)

Co-Principal Investigator: Steven J Jeffries (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)

Co-Principal Investigator: John M Kennish (University of Alaska, Anchorage)

Co-Principal Investigator: Monique M Lance (Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife)

Co-Principal Investigator: Philip S. Levin (National Marine Fisheries Service)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Responses of Seals and Sea Lions to Increased Rockfish Density (Seal_response_to_prey)


Abstract

Counts of prey species found in harbor seal scat samples collected in the San Juan Islands from 2005-2008.

Counts of prey species identified in harbor seal scat samples collected from 2005 to 2008.

Also see the related data set, "seal_prey_by_region", in which frequencies of occurrence are provided for prey groupings for different sampling regions within the San Juan Islands.

Data and methods, including sample sizes, are described in:
Lance, M. M., Chang, W.-Y., Jeffries, S. J., Pearson, S. F. & Acevedo-Gutierrez, A. 2012. Harbor seal diet in northern Puget Sound: implications for the recovery of depressed fish stocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series 464:257-271. DOI:10.3354/meps09880


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Lance, M., Chang, W., Jeffries, S., Pearson, S., & Acevedo-Gutiérrez, A. (2012). Harbor seal diet in northern Puget Sound: implications for the recovery of depressed fish stocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 464, 257–271. doi:10.3354/meps09880