Top Predator Hotspot Persistence. Version 1.0

• Main Authors: Sigler, M., Kuletz, K., Wilson, C., Friday, N., Ressler, P.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory 2014
• Subjects: biota; oceans; Biology; Arctic; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Ships; In Situ Ocean-based Platforms > SHIPS > SHIPS > > 1bb21d0f-bf48-42b5-8e09-cc0d58407e4a; Bottom Trawl; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Samplers > Trawls/Nets > > BOTTOM TRAWL > > cbbb7e45-e65c-45fd-8fa4-c4d2a56d0e87; Echo Sounder; Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Active Remote Sensing > Profilers/Sounders > Acoustic Sounders > ECHO SOUNDERS > > 9b547aa7-4980-42dc-9f6b-4d35e2cc625c; Midwater Trawl; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Samplers > Trawls/Nets > > MIDWATER TRAWLS > > f692fa4a-034c-4428-8d71-2549e1fd254e; Visual Observations; In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Photon/Optical Detectors > > > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > > 0982484f-4bb9-41dd-8841-931435cc138d; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > EUPHAUSIIDS KRILL > 4095dea9-3da1-4679-bccf-7fe637414910; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH > ea855d4c-f132-44f9-b31c-447e1101684d; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS > 4a55497b-8e07-431a-9af9-fece001f1dd7; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > 1bf8f27a-d6ff-4cb6-acb7-7e5cce11e029; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > 7f066677-c0f8-4bb1-91de-13954494a927; BSIERP; Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program; Bering Sea; Balaenoptera physalus; Black-legged Kittiwake; Fin whale; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; rissa tridactyla; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5065/d6h1301h; https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/245.B92-001

This dataset contains surveys of foraging patterns of marine predators. The predators studied were black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia), the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), and the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus). Surveys were taken once a year in 2004 and from 2006-2010 and compared the foraging patterns of these predators to pollock and euphausiid concentrations.