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Title: Ringed-seal monitoring: Relationships of distribution and abundance to habitat attributes and industrial activities. Final report

Abstract

The 3-year study intended to develop a program for monitoring the abundance of ringed seals in Alaska through aerial surveys. The report presents the results of aerial surveys of ringed seals on the shorefast ice of the eastern Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea in May-June 1987 and compares them with the results of similar surveys conducted in 1985 and 1986. Ringed seals (Phoca hispida) are a major ecological component of the arctic and subarctic marine fauna. In recognition of the ecological importance of ringed seals and the possibility that they may be impacted by human activites, the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program sponsored studies of the biology and ecology of ringed seals in Alaska. Ringed-seal aerial surveys based upon the 1985 research protocol were flown during May and June of 1985, 1986, and 1987. The surveys were satisfactorily completed and the data was analyzed to determine: factors affecting survey counts; regional and temporal trends in ringed-seal abundance; habitat factors affecting distribution and abundance; and the effects of industrial activities on seal density.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Ocean Service, Anchorage, AK (USA). Ocean Assessments Div.
OSTI Identifier:
5193034
Report Number(s):
PB-89-234686/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 02 PETROLEUM; 03 NATURAL GAS; BEAUFORT SEA; PINNIPEDS; CHUKCHI SEA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; BASELINE ECOLOGY; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; AERIAL SURVEYING; HABITAT; POPULATIONS; PROGRESS REPORT; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; STATISTICAL DATA; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; ARCTIC OCEAN; DATA; DOCUMENT TYPES; ECOLOGY; INFORMATION; MAMMALS; NUMERICAL DATA; SEAS; SURFACE WATERS; VARIATIONS; VERTEBRATES; 540310* - Environment, Aquatic- Basic Studies- (1990-); 020900 - Petroleum- Environmental Aspects; 030800 - Natural Gas- Environmental Aspects

Citation Formats

Frost, K J, Lowry, L F, Gilbert, J R, and Burns, J J. Ringed-seal monitoring: Relationships of distribution and abundance to habitat attributes and industrial activities. Final report. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
Frost, K J, Lowry, L F, Gilbert, J R, & Burns, J J. Ringed-seal monitoring: Relationships of distribution and abundance to habitat attributes and industrial activities. Final report. United States.
Frost, K J, Lowry, L F, Gilbert, J R, and Burns, J J. 1988. "Ringed-seal monitoring: Relationships of distribution and abundance to habitat attributes and industrial activities. Final report". United States.
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title = {Ringed-seal monitoring: Relationships of distribution and abundance to habitat attributes and industrial activities. Final report},
author = {Frost, K J and Lowry, L F and Gilbert, J R and Burns, J J},
abstractNote = {The 3-year study intended to develop a program for monitoring the abundance of ringed seals in Alaska through aerial surveys. The report presents the results of aerial surveys of ringed seals on the shorefast ice of the eastern Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea in May-June 1987 and compares them with the results of similar surveys conducted in 1985 and 1986. Ringed seals (Phoca hispida) are a major ecological component of the arctic and subarctic marine fauna. In recognition of the ecological importance of ringed seals and the possibility that they may be impacted by human activites, the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program sponsored studies of the biology and ecology of ringed seals in Alaska. Ringed-seal aerial surveys based upon the 1985 research protocol were flown during May and June of 1985, 1986, and 1987. The surveys were satisfactorily completed and the data was analyzed to determine: factors affecting survey counts; regional and temporal trends in ringed-seal abundance; habitat factors affecting distribution and abundance; and the effects of industrial activities on seal density.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988},
month = {Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988}
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