Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island

Phoca vitulina (harbor seal) haul-out behavior provides metabolic benefits, safety, and reproduction opportunities. Collecting seal count data at these sites between different times of day can provide indications about harbor seal abundance as well as have larger implications for local food webs and...

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Main Author: Donahue, Galadriel
Language:unknown
Published: 2024
Subjects:
harbor seal
Goose Island
Phoca vitulina
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1773/51419
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spelling ftunivwashington:oai:digital.lib.washington.edu:1773/51419 2024-06-23T07:53:29+00:00 Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island Donahue, Galadriel 2024-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1773/51419 unknown FHL 470; http://hdl.handle.net/1773/51419 harbor seal Goose Island Phoca vitulina 2024 ftunivwashington 2024-06-05T00:12:38Z Phoca vitulina (harbor seal) haul-out behavior provides metabolic benefits, safety, and reproduction opportunities. Collecting seal count data at these sites between different times of day can provide indications about harbor seal abundance as well as have larger implications for local food webs and impacts of anthropogenic-induced climate change. It was hypothesized that Harbor seal counts will be significantly higher at later times of day due to higher temperatures (thermoregulatory advantages). Overall, it was found that time of day had a significant impact on hauled-out harbor seal counts. This has implications for how their ability to detect predators may decrease with rising sea levels, and in turn affect food web dynamics. Other/Unknown Material harbor seal Phoca vitulina University of Washington, Seattle: ResearchWorks Goose Island ENVELOPE(-55.748,-55.748,52.317,52.317)
institution Open Polar
collection University of Washington, Seattle: ResearchWorks
op_collection_id ftunivwashington
language unknown
topic harbor seal
Goose Island
Phoca vitulina
spellingShingle harbor seal
Goose Island
Phoca vitulina
Donahue, Galadriel
Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island
topic_facet harbor seal
Goose Island
Phoca vitulina
description Phoca vitulina (harbor seal) haul-out behavior provides metabolic benefits, safety, and reproduction opportunities. Collecting seal count data at these sites between different times of day can provide indications about harbor seal abundance as well as have larger implications for local food webs and impacts of anthropogenic-induced climate change. It was hypothesized that Harbor seal counts will be significantly higher at later times of day due to higher temperatures (thermoregulatory advantages). Overall, it was found that time of day had a significant impact on hauled-out harbor seal counts. This has implications for how their ability to detect predators may decrease with rising sea levels, and in turn affect food web dynamics.
author Donahue, Galadriel
author_facet Donahue, Galadriel
author_sort Donahue, Galadriel
title Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island
title_short Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island
title_full Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island
title_fullStr Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island
title_full_unstemmed Monitoring Harbor Seal Abundance Counts at Haul-Out Site on Goose Island
title_sort monitoring harbor seal abundance counts at haul-out site on goose island
publishDate 2024
url http://hdl.handle.net/1773/51419
long_lat ENVELOPE(-55.748,-55.748,52.317,52.317)
geographic Goose Island
geographic_facet Goose Island
genre harbor seal
Phoca vitulina
genre_facet harbor seal
Phoca vitulina
op_relation FHL 470;
http://hdl.handle.net/1773/51419
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