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Alaska Science Center

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

Bears, Animal behavior, Biogeography, Mammals, Science programs, Wildlife

ISO 19115 Topic Category

Environment, Biota

Other Subject Keywords

Marine mammals, Threatened species, Polar bears, Ursus maritimus, Bears, Argos, Mammals, Carnivores, Satellite Transmitter, Animals/Vertebrates, Species Life History, Wildlife

Place Keywords

Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Alaska

Polar Bear Distribution and Habitat Resource Selection Data, Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, 1985-2016

These data from satellite radio-collared adult female polar bears captured in the southern Beaufort Sea, 1985-2016 were used for testing the regional, seasonal and decadal efficacy of retrospective polar bear resource selection functions (RSF) developed for the Arctic basin and its peripheral seas (see Durner et al. 2009). The data includes the following: 1) a csv file of locations used to build a 99% minimum convex polygon study area; 2) a csv file of locations, that occurred within the study area, and were used to test RSFs; 3) a csv file of locations used to build seasonal kernel utilization distributions (95% and 50% contours) for periods 1985-1995, 1996-2006, and 2007-2016.

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Author(s)	George M Durner
Publication Date	2019-07-31
Beginning Date of Data	1985-05-06
Ending Date of Data	2016-06-20
Data Contact	U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZRJ3XU
Citation	Durner, G.M., 2019, Polar Bear Distribution and Habitat Resource Selection Data, Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, 1985-2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZRJ3XU.
Metadata Contact	U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
Metadata Date	2023-02-15
Related Publication	Durner, G.M., Douglas, D.C., and Atwood, T.C., 2019, Are polar bear habitat resource selection functions developed from 1985–1995 data still useful? Ecology and Evolution, v. 9, no. 15, p. 8625–8638, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5401.
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