Piatt and Naslund 



Chapter 28 



Abundance, Distribution, and Population Status in Alaska 



Murrelet Distribution 



90 100 ISO 200 290 300 390 



0.061/KmSq 

 UlO/IimS, 

 1-SeO/KmSq 

 200 i 



0.647/lmSi 

 0.000/KmS() 



GULF OF 

 ALASKA 



Figure 2 Distribution of Marbled Murrelets in the northern Gutf of Alaska (from Piatt and Ford 1 993). Density contour polygons calculated from 

 data grouped in 30' latitude-longitude blocks and scaled arithmetically. 



Table 1 Abundance of Marbled Murrelets in different marine areas of Alaska during breeding (May-July) and 

 no nb reeding (February-April and August-October) periods as estimated by extrapolation from OCSEAP data. 

 From Piatt and Ford (1993) 



* Area within ca. 50 km of coast unless otherwise stated. 

 " Population size underestimated, see text 



USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-152. 1995. 



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