Effects of EVOS on abundances and reproduction of Murre colonies, near PWS, coastal Kenai and Alaska Peninsulas, and Kodiak Island (1989-1991).

• Main Author: David Nysewander
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
• Subjects: Exxon Valdez; oil spill; Common Murre; Thick-billed Murre; Uria; Gulf of Alaska; Middleton Island; Chiswell Island; The Triplets; Prince William Sound; Cook Inlet; Barren Island; Puale Bay; Ugaiushak Island; Semidi Island; Alaska; EVOS; EVOSTC; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; Kodiak Island; Uria aalge; Uria lomvia; Triplets; Kodiak; thick-billed murre; uria
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/df35i.24.30

We surveyed murres (Uria spp.) annually from 1989 through 1991 at breeding colonies within the trajectory of the oil to determine whether numbers had declined and to evaluate the effects of oil on nesting phenology and reproductive success, following the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (EVOS). The colon...