34563ec7-d5cc-4e08-972e-83913fa07a9d https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usgs_asc-cae-alaska-birds Tom Fondell U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center Research Wildlife Biologist

4210 University Drive Anchorage Alaska 99508 US

+1 (907) 786-7155 tfondell@usgs.gov http://alaska.usgs.gov John Pearce U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center Research Wildlife Biologist

4210 University Drive Anchorage Alaska 99508 US

+1 907.786.7094 jpearce@usgs.gov http://alaska.usgs.gov Tom Fondell U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center Research Wildlife Biologist

4210 University Drive Anchorage Alaska 99508 US

+1 907.786.7155 tfondell@usgs.gov http://alaska.usgs.gov principalInvestigator Joel Schmutz U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center Research Wildlife Biologist

4210 University Drive Anchorage Alaska 99508 US

+1 907.786.7186 jschmutz@usgs.gov http://alaska.usgs.gov author Brian Uher-Koch U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center Research Wildlife Biologist

4210 University Drive Anchorage Alaska 99508 US

+1 907.786.7052 buher-koch@usgs.gov http://alaska.usgs.gov author Annie Simpson US Geological Survey, Core Science Systems, BISON project biologist and information scientist

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mailstop 302 Reston Virginia 20192 US

+1 703-648-4281 asimpson@usgs.gov http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov processor 2016-10-06 eng Through the Changing Arctic Ecosystems initiative, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) strives to inform key resource management decisions for Arctic Alaska by providing scientific information on current and future ecosystem response to a warming climate. Our research is (1) examining critical physical and landscape-scale changes in the environment; (2) assessing key ecological drivers of population change; and (3) projecting future abundance and distribution of focal species, including mammals, birds, fish, and aquatic invertebrates that use the landscapes of the Arctic in different ways and likely will express differently the consequences of changes to the associated ecosystems. USGS Alaska Science Center (ASC), monitors bird populations in several sites and these are the results of those studies. Metadata occurrence observation GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/ birds aquatic birds nesting USGS Biocomplexity Thesaurus: http://www.usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/biocomplexity_thesaurus/search_thesaurus.html Alaska North Slope Nome Seward USGS Geographic Names Information System: http://geonames.usgs.gov/ Metadata GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction. http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/interdisciplinary_science/cae/index.php Seward Peninsula, Chipp Slopes, and Colville River Delta in Alaska. -167.15 -146.8 70.68 59.78 Birds encountered in Alaska during summer months, many of them nesting, from 67 unique taxa (to date). class Aves birds phylum Chordata chordates kingdom Animalia animals unkown John Pearce U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center Research Wildlife Biologist

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+1 907.786.7094 jpearce@usgs.gov http://alaska.usgs.gov The step description was as described in the Sampling Description, above. As described in the Geographic Coverage. Observations made during summer months. Different sampling methods were used. For Loons- Observers conducted complete nest searches by walking the shoreline of all lakes in both study plots. Nest locations were marked with a hand-held GPS unit and revisited to monitor nest fate at weekly intervals. Some lakes extending outside the plot boundary were also searched as time and resources allowed, thereby increasing sample sizes. John Pearce pointOfContact US Geological Survey Changing Arctic Ecosystems Initiative. This study is being conducted on a variety of Alaska's ecosystems: 1) Chipp on the ACP between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Ocean, north of the Arctic Circle (~70° 32' N, -155° 21' W). This area is part of the NPR-A, where oil and gas development is expected to increase, and is owned and managed by the BLM. The region consists of low tundra, including sedge, moss, dwarf-shrub wetlands (W2) and tussock-sedge, dwarf-shrub, moist tundra (G4) ecosystems described in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (Walker et al. 2005). There is an extensive system of fish-bearing lakes and several major drainage rivers. More specifically, our research is confined to two, 7 kilometer-squared study plots, approximately 35 km apart, along the Chipp River, 100 km (60 miles) southeast of the community of Barrow. Each plot exhibits different ecological and climatic characteristics; Chipp North (N 70.686, W-155.304) -- this dataset -- is closer to the coast and lower lying, while the Chipp South (N 70.395, W -155.407) is more inland, having rolling terrain features. 2) Several areas of Alaska's Seward Peninsula, including beyond the international date line. 3) Alaska's North Slope along the Colville River Delta. 2015-06-08T07:12:16.657+00:00 dataset Pearce, J., T. DeGange, P. Flint, T. Fondell, D. Gustine, L. Holland-Bartels, A. Hope, J. Hupp, J. Koch, S. Talbot, D. Ward, and M. Whalen. 2012. Changing Arctic Ecosystems—Measuring and forecasting the response of Alaska's terrestrial ecosystem to a warming climate. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2012-3144, 4 p. Paruk, J. D., K. G. Wright, B.D. Uher-Koch, D.C. Evers, J. S. Fair, and C.E. Gray. Breeding Ecology of the Yellow-billed Loons (Gavia adamsii) on the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska 2013. Biodiversity Research Institute Report # 2013-12, Gorham, Maine. Walker, D.A., M.K. Raynolds, F.J.A. Daniels, E. Einarsson, A. Elvebakk, W.A. Gould, A.E. Katenin, S.S. Kholod, D.J. Markon, E.S. Melnikov, N.G. Moskalenko, S.S. Talbot, and B.A. Yurtsev. 2005. Journal of Vegetation Science 16(3): 267-282. Changing Arctic Ecosystems UTF-8 html http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/interdisciplinary_science/cae/arctic_coastal_plain.php The Arctic Coastal Plain UTF-8 html http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/interdisciplinary_science/cae/arctic_coastal_plain.php Measuring and Forecasting the Response of Alaska’s Terrestrial Ecosystem to a Warming Climate UTF-8 pdf http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3144/ http://bison.ornl.gov/ipt/logo.do?r=usgs_asc-cae-alaska-birds 2013 to present 34563ec7-d5cc-4e08-972e-83913fa07a9d/v1.1.xml