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Northern fur seal demography studies at San Miguel Island, California conducted from 1975-10-07 to 2014-09-26 (NCEI Accession 0141240)

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR

The National Marine Mammal Laboratories' California Current Ecosystem Program (AFSC/NOAA) initiated a long-term marking program of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) at San Miguel Island, California in 1975.

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A sample of up to 300 pups has been tagged in the foreflippers with various types and colors of tags each year between 1975 and the present. Resighting surveys for marked animals are conducted annually at summer breeding sites.

Resightings are also obtained from the public when animals are observed on beaches or in fisheries. The data are used in mark-recapture models to estimate the age and sex specific vital parameters of the population and to describe age and sex specific reproductive behavior and seasonal movements of animals throughout their lives.

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Provenance · 1 source records, 15 field assertions
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NASA Earthdata CMRC2089376578-NOAA_NCEI13 d agoJSON v1
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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:binocularssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:biota-surveyssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:scalesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:visual-observationsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates/mammalssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates/mammals/cetaceanssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/not-providedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:not-providedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
descriptionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/Abstract
license_textsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
spatialsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/SpatialExtent
temporalsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/TemporalExtents
titlesource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0/umm/EntryTitle
version_labelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0