Atlantic Canada hosts data on mercury concentrations in blood and feathers from juvenile Semipalmated Sandpipers and Semipalmated Plovers. The dataset, associated with a paper accepted to Contaminants, Environment, and Society, was created by Sophie McTiernan-Gamble and harvested from Borealis. It was last updated on April 25, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling mercury burdens based on breeding origin mentioned in the description.
- Assessing the relationship between fueling status and contaminant levels described in the study.
- Investigating dietary influences on mercury concentrations in shorebirds as referenced in the paper.
Strengths
- Data is associated with a peer-reviewed paper accepted to an academic journal.
- Focuses on two specific bird species (Calidris pusilla and Charadrius semipalmatus) during a defined life stage (juvenile) and event (southward migration).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Data and R code associated with a scientific paper; likely collected from field sampling of birds.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-25 04:10:27; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Atlantic Canada (staging area), with birds originating from the Arctic.