USGS ASC - Changing Arctic Ecosystems - Alaska - Birds
Citation
Fondell T, Pearce J (2016). USGS ASC - Changing Arctic Ecosystems - Alaska - Birds. Version 1.1. United States Geological Survey. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dz11z3 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
Through the Changing Arctic Ecosystems initiative, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) strives to inform key resource management decisions for Arctic Alaska by providing scientific information on current and future ecosystem response to a warming climate. Our research is (1) examining critical physical and landscape-scale changes in the environment; (2) assessing key ecological drivers of population change; and (3) projecting future abundance and distribution of focal species, including mammals, birds, fish, and aquatic invertebrates that use the landscapes of the Arctic in different ways and likely will express differently the consequences of changes to the associated ecosystems. USGS Alaska Science Center (ASC), monitors bird populations in several sites and these are the results of those studies.Sampling Description
Study Extent
As described in the Geographic Coverage. Observations made during summer months.Sampling
Different sampling methods were used. For Loons- Observers conducted complete nest searches by walking the shoreline of all lakes in both study plots. Nest locations were marked with a hand-held GPS unit and revisited to monitor nest fate at weekly intervals. Some lakes extending outside the plot boundary were also searched as time and resources allowed, thereby increasing sample sizes.Method steps
- The step description was as described in the Sampling Description, above.
Taxonomic Coverages
Birds encountered in Alaska during summer months, many of them nesting, from 67 unique taxa (to date).
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Avescommon name: birds rank: class
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Chordatacommon name: chordates rank: phylum
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Animaliacommon name: animals rank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
Seward Peninsula, Chipp Slopes, and Colville River Delta in Alaska.
Bibliographic Citations
- Paruk, J. D., K. G. Wright, B.D. Uher-Koch, D.C. Evers, J. S. Fair, and C.E. Gray. Breeding Ecology of the Yellow-billed Loons (Gavia adamsii) on the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska 2013. Biodiversity Research Institute Report # 2013-12, Gorham, Maine. -
- Walker, D.A., M.K. Raynolds, F.J.A. Daniels, E. Einarsson, A. Elvebakk, W.A. Gould, A.E. Katenin, S.S. Kholod, D.J. Markon, E.S. Melnikov, N.G. Moskalenko, S.S. Talbot, and B.A. Yurtsev. 2005. Journal of Vegetation Science 16(3): 267-282. - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2005.tb02365.x/pdf
Contacts
Tom Fondelloriginator
position: Research Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center
4210 University Drive
Anchorage
99508
Alaska
US
Telephone: +1 (907) 786-7155
email: tfondell@usgs.gov
homepage: http://alaska.usgs.gov
John Pearce
metadata author
position: Research Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center
4210 University Drive
Anchorage
99508
Alaska
US
Telephone: +1 907.786.7094
email: jpearce@usgs.gov
homepage: http://alaska.usgs.gov
Tom Fondell
principal investigator
position: Research Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center
4210 University Drive
Anchorage
99508
Alaska
US
Telephone: +1 907.786.7155
email: tfondell@usgs.gov
homepage: http://alaska.usgs.gov
Joel Schmutz
author
position: Research Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center
4210 University Drive
Anchorage
99508
Alaska
US
Telephone: +1 907.786.7186
email: jschmutz@usgs.gov
homepage: http://alaska.usgs.gov
Brian Uher-Koch
author
position: Research Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center
4210 University Drive
Anchorage
99508
Alaska
US
Telephone: +1 907.786.7052
email: buher-koch@usgs.gov
homepage: http://alaska.usgs.gov
Annie Simpson
processor
position: biologist and information scientist
US Geological Survey, Core Science Systems, BISON project
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mailstop 302
Reston
20192
Virginia
US
Telephone: +1 703-648-4281
email: asimpson@usgs.gov
homepage: http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov
John Pearce
administrative point of contact
position: Research Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center
4210 University Drive
Anchorage
99508
Alaska
US
Telephone: +1 907.786.7094
email: jpearce@usgs.gov
homepage: http://alaska.usgs.gov