Black-legged kittiwake diet data from Kongsfjorden 1982-2016

• Main Authors: Vihtakari, Mikko, Welcker, Jorg, Moe, Børge, Chastel, Olivier, Tartu, Sabrina, Hop, Haakon, Bech, Claus, Descamps, Sébastien, Gabrielsen, Geir Wing
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: npolar.no 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Moe; Vihtakari; Black-legged Kittiwake; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21334/npolar.2017.26dbd004; https://data.npolar.no/dataset/26dbd004-158b-4909-a67d-4d3b12223842

Diet datasets from Vihtakari, M., Welcker, J., Moe, B., Chastel, O., Tartu, S., Hop, H., Bech, C., Descamps, S., Gabrielsen, G.W., 2018. Black-legged kittiwakes as messengers of Atlantification in the Arctic. Sci. Rep. 8, 1178. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-19118-8 Includes wet weight (grams) and binary (presence/absence) kittiwake diet data from Kongsfjorden (1981-2016) together with explanatory variables and measurements of otoliths (width and length in millimeters) found from the diet samples. Data are organized in .csv files in tabular format. Binary diet data is "kittiwake_diet_bin.csv", wet weight data in "kittiwake_diet_ww.csv", explanatory variables in "explanatory_data.csv" and otolith data in "otolith_data.csv". Meta-data (i.e. column infomation) is given in "*_colnames.cvs" files for each dataset. Full diet species names can be found from "kittiwake_diet_colnames.csv".