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©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.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
Acevedo-Gutierrez, A., Bromaghin, J., Jeffries, S., Kennish, J., Lance, M., Levin, P. (2012) Counts of prey species found in harbor seal scat samples collected in the San Juan Islands from 2005-2008 (Seal_response_to_prey project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2012-12-13 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.3817.1 [access date]
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