Estimation of Abundance and Demographic Rates of Pacific Walruses in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, 2015

• Main Authors: Patrick Lemons, John Wenburg, Suresh Sethi, Geoffrey Cook, James MacCracken, Joel Garlich-Miller
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace 2013
• Subjects: single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Pacific walrus; Odobenus rosmarus divergens; genetics; Chukchi Sea; capture-mark-recapture; Bering Sea; abundance; North Pacific Research Board; survival; recruitment; genetic tagging; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; Odobenus rosmarus; morse, Walrus; May-July 2015; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Morse; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Sea ice; morse; walrus*
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k44a_2020_3_24_225958

This study estimated abundance and demographic rates, including survival and recruitment, of Pacific walruses in the Beaufort Sea in 2015. The data collected was used to determine the feasibility of conducting a large scale and long-term capture-mark-recapture effort to determine the size of the Pac...