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Great Salt Lake, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, colonial waterbird, American white pelican, El Nino Southern Oscillation, air temperature, longitudinal data, colony count, water level, Southern Oscillation Index

Place Keywords

Great Basin, Gunnison Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Colony counts and environmental covariates of the American white pelican colony on Gunnison Island, UT, USA

Annual colony counts of American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) at Gunnison Island, Utah, USA, and selected environmental covariates hypothesized to influence colony population dynamics at this location. Environmental covariates include mean springtime Great Salt Lake water levels, minimum springtime air temperature, mean annual Pacific Decadal Oscillation index values, and mean annual Southern Oscillation Index values across the study period.

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Author(s)	Aimee Van Tatenhove, Erica F Stuber , John Neill, Russell Norvell, Clark Rushing
Publication Date	2024-06-03
Beginning Date of Data	1854
Ending Date of Data	2021
Data Contact	Aimee M. Van Tatenhove
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5066/P9T41I3X
Citation	Tatenhove, A.V., Stuber, E.F., Neill, J., Norvell, R., and Rushing, C., 2024, Colony counts and environmental covariates of the American white pelican colony on Gunnison Island, UT, USA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9T41I3X.
Metadata Contact	Aimee M. Van Tatenhove
Metadata Date	2024-06-03
Related Publication	There was no related primary publication associated with this data release.
Citations of these data	No citations of these data are known at this time.
Access	public
License	http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/

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