Outputs of current speed and sea otter abundance models in Glacier Bay, Alaska
Sea otters are apex predators that can exert considerable influence over the nearshore communities they occupy. Since facing near extinction in the early 1900s, sea otters are making a remarkable recovery in Southeast Alaska, particularly in Glacier Bay, the largest protected tidewater glacier fjord...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7790379 2024-09-15T18:07:32+00:00 Outputs of current speed and sea otter abundance models in Glacier Bay, Alaska Leach, Clinton Lu, Xinyi Drew, Gary 2023-03-31 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vt4b8gtx6 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.3354/meps10304 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7782112 https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vt4b8gtx6 oai:zenodo.org:7790379 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Enhydra lutris Tidal circulation Glacier Bay Current speed Population Ecology info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2023 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.vt4b8gtx610.3354/meps1030410.5281/zenodo.7782112 2024-07-26T15:01:22Z Sea otters are apex predators that can exert considerable influence over the nearshore communities they occupy. Since facing near extinction in the early 1900s, sea otters are making a remarkable recovery in Southeast Alaska, particularly in Glacier Bay, the largest protected tidewater glacier fjord in the world. The expansion of sea otters across Glacier Bay offers both a challenge to monitoring and stewardship and an unprecedented opportunity to study the top-down effect of a novel apex predator across a diverse and productive ecosystem. Our goal was to integrate monitoring data across trophic levels, space, and time to quantify and map the predator-prey interaction between sea otters and butter clams (Saxidomus gigantea ), one of the dominant large bivalves in Glacier Bay and a favored prey of sea otters. To do so, we developed a modeling framework to account for both bottom-up and top-down drivers of butter clam abundance and dynamics. For the bottom-up driver, we used the root-mean-square current speed (m/s) predicted by a tidal circulation model of Glacier Bay developed by Drew et al. (2013). For top-down sea otter dynamics, we used the posterior mean sea otter abundance estimates from Lu et al. (2019). This repository contains the current speed raster (100m x 100m resolution) produced by Drew et al. (2013) and the files and model output from Lu et al. (2019) necessary to generate a time series of rasters (400m x 400m resolution raster brick with 26 layers for the years 1993-2018) of estimated posterior mean sea otter abundance. These data layers are used in Leach et al. (2023) to model butter clam dynamics at sampling sites across Glacier Bay. R scripts to read and process both the current speed and sea otter rasters are available at https://github.com/clint-leach/otter-clam and in the linked Zenodo archive. Code to load the current speed raster and extract its values at a set of lat-long coordinates is provided in the script 'align_data.r' provided in that repository. After extracting the zip, the ... Other/Unknown Material glacier Tidewater Alaska Zenodo |
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Sea otters are apex predators that can exert considerable influence over the nearshore communities they occupy. Since facing near extinction in the early 1900s, sea otters are making a remarkable recovery in Southeast Alaska, particularly in Glacier Bay, the largest protected tidewater glacier fjord in the world. The expansion of sea otters across Glacier Bay offers both a challenge to monitoring and stewardship and an unprecedented opportunity to study the top-down effect of a novel apex predator across a diverse and productive ecosystem. Our goal was to integrate monitoring data across trophic levels, space, and time to quantify and map the predator-prey interaction between sea otters and butter clams (Saxidomus gigantea ), one of the dominant large bivalves in Glacier Bay and a favored prey of sea otters. To do so, we developed a modeling framework to account for both bottom-up and top-down drivers of butter clam abundance and dynamics. For the bottom-up driver, we used the root-mean-square current speed (m/s) predicted by a tidal circulation model of Glacier Bay developed by Drew et al. (2013). For top-down sea otter dynamics, we used the posterior mean sea otter abundance estimates from Lu et al. (2019). This repository contains the current speed raster (100m x 100m resolution) produced by Drew et al. (2013) and the files and model output from Lu et al. (2019) necessary to generate a time series of rasters (400m x 400m resolution raster brick with 26 layers for the years 1993-2018) of estimated posterior mean sea otter abundance. These data layers are used in Leach et al. (2023) to model butter clam dynamics at sampling sites across Glacier Bay. R scripts to read and process both the current speed and sea otter rasters are available at https://github.com/clint-leach/otter-clam and in the linked Zenodo archive. Code to load the current speed raster and extract its values at a set of lat-long coordinates is provided in the script 'align_data.r' provided in that repository. After extracting the zip, the ... |
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Outputs of current speed and sea otter abundance models in Glacier Bay, Alaska |
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