Description
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. This dataset is a list of all bird species observed, and their location, during the 2011-13 field seasons for this project. USGS Alaska Science Center (ASC).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 257 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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Rights
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b555d382-6b9a-4deb-a6b4-e05f19305c85. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; birds; Alaska; North Slope; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| The Arctic Coastal Plain: Measuring and Forecasting the Response of Alaska’s Terrestrial Ecosystem to a Warming Climate | http://alaska.usgs.gov/science/interdisciplinary_science/cae/arctic_coastal_plain.php UTF-8 html |
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| Changing Arctic Ecosystems Measuring and Forecasting the Response of Alaska’s Terrestrial Ecosystem to a Warming Climate | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3144/ UTF-8 pdf |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
This study is being conducted on Alaska's North Slope, on the Arctic Coastal Plain between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Ocean, north of the Arctic Circle (~70° 32' N, -155° 21' W). More specifically, our research is confined to two, 7 km2 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) is coastal and lower lying, while the Chipp South (N 70.395, W -155.407) is more inland, having rolling terrain features.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [70.395, -155.409], North East [70.686, -155.305] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
birds.
| Class | Aves (birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2011-06-22 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | USGS AK Science Ctr - Changing Arctic Ecosystems - birdlist |
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| Funding | USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems initiative |
| Study Area Description | This study is being conducted on Alaska's North Slope, 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 km2 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) is coastal and lower lying, while the Chipp South (N 70.395, W -155.407) is more inland, having rolling terrain features. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Bird List – As biologists conducted their field studies they noted all bird species observed. Observations were compiled into a list for each study area (i.e., Chipp North and Chipp South). In the 2013 season, day of observation was not included.
| Study Extent | Chipp North (N 70.686, W-155.304) is coastal and low lying. |
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Method step description:
- Record all bird species observed.
Bibliographic Citations
- 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.
- 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.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | b555d382-6b9a-4deb-a6b4-e05f19305c85 |
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| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=usgs-ak_science_ctr-changing_arctic_ecosystems-birdlist |