Project Information

Title: Mechanisms of Impact and Potential Recovery of Nearshore Vertebrate Predators (NVP) 00025

Project Year and Number: 2000: 00025

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 1999: 99025, 1998: 98025, 1997: 97025, 1996: 96025

Principal Investigator (PI): Leslie Holland-Bartels (US Geological Survey)

Managing Agency: USGS

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Harlequin Ducks, Intertidal Organisms, Pigeon Guillemot, River Otters, Sea Otters, Subtidal Organisms

Abstract: FY 00 will be dedicated to revising portions of the FY 99 final report for publication in peer reviewed journals. Nine manuscripts are slated to be published collectively and 13 additional manuscripts will be submitted to separate journals in FY 00. Funds will be used for responding to review comments, final analysis, and preparation of scientific journal articles. This six-year project is making an integrated assessment of trophic, health, and demographic factors across a suite of apex predators injured by the spill to determine mechanisms constraining recovery and to improve knowledge of the status of recovery.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Final Report: See Project 99025

Publications from this Project: Adkinson, M. D.; Ballachey, B.; Bodkin, J., and Holland-Bartels, L. Integrating ecosystem studies: a Bayesian Find it
Dean, T. A. ; Bodkin, J. L.; Fukuyama, A. K.; Jewett, S. C.; Monson, D. H., and O'Clair, C. E. VanBlaricom G. R. Food limitation and the recovery of sea otters following the Exxon Valdez oil spll. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2002 Oct 4; 241:255-270.