Marine bird and sea otter population abundance of Prince William Sound, Alaska: trends following the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989-2007

• Main Author: Irons
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
• Subjects: population trends; seabirds; sea otters; Prince William Sound; Montague; Orca; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/df35r.7.27

We conducted small boat surveys to estimate marine bird and sea otter populations in Prince Willi am Sound, Alaska during March (“winter”) and July (“summer”) 2007, using methods developed in 1989-91 (Klosiewski and Laing 1994). We examined trends of marine birds in the oiled and unoiled areas of PW...