Counts of prey species found in harbor seal scat samples collected in the San Juan Islands from 2005-2008 (Seal_response_to_prey project)

• Main Authors: Alejandro Acevedo-Gutierrez, Jeffrey F Bromaghin, Steven J Jeffries, John M Kennish, Monique M Lance, Philip S. Levin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) 2012
• Subjects: oceans; San Juan; harbor seal
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256:ec638eeea248a2294d7ad26ede57451d1e282d4a5fab84071aae8c89076ea514

<p>Counts of prey species identified in harbor seal scat samples collected from 2005 to 2008.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Data and methods, including sample sizes, are described in:<br /> <strong>Lance</strong>, M. M., Chang, W.-Y., Jeffries, S. J., Pearson, S. F. &amp; 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:<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09880\" target=\"_blank\">10.3354/meps09880</a></p>