Effects of climate warming on polar bears: a review of the evidence

I Stirling, AE Derocher - Global Change Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is causing unidirectional changes to annual patterns of sea ice distribution,
structure, and freeze‐up. We summarize evidence that documents how loss of sea ice, the …

[HTML][HTML] Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: review of recent findings

B Braune, J Chételat, M Amyot, T Brown… - Science of the Total …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review summarizes data and information which have been generated on mercury (Hg)
in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic since the previous Canadian Arctic …

Last-chance tourism: The boom, doom, and gloom of visiting vanishing destinations

H Lemelin, J Dawson, EJ Stewart, P Maher… - Current Issues in …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Popular press and industry stakeholders are reporting a travel trend whereby tourists
increasingly seek to experience the world's most endangered sites before they vanish or are …

Arctic marine mammals and climate change: impacts and resilience

SE Moore, HP Huntington - Ecological Applications, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary selection has refined the life histories of seven species (three cetacean
[narwhal, beluga, and bowhead whales], three pinniped [walrus, ringed, and bearded seals] …

Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America

T Kitzberger, DA Falk, AL Westerling, TW Swetnam - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Predicting wildfire under future conditions is complicated by complex interrelated drivers
operating across large spatial scales. Annual area burned (AAB) is a useful index of global …

Polar bear diets and arctic marine food webs: insights from fatty acid analysis

GW Thiemann, SJ Iverson, I Stirling - Ecological Monographs, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We used quantitative fatty acid signature analysis (QFASA) to examine the diets of 1738
individual polar bears (Ursus maritimus) sampled across the Canadian Arctic over a 30‐year …

Effects of earlier sea ice breakup on survival and population size of polar bears in western Hudson Bay

EV Regehr, NJ Lunn, SC Amstrup… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Some of the most pronounced ecological responses to climatic warming are expected to
occur in polar marine regions, where temperature increases have been the greatest and sea …

Possible effects of climate warming on selected populations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Canadian Arctic

I Stirling, CL Parkinson - Arctic, 2006 - JSTOR
Polar bears depend on sea ice for survival. Climate warming in the Arctic has caused
significant declines in total cover and thickness of sea ice in the polar basin and …

Variation in the response of an Arctic top predator experiencing habitat loss: feeding and reproductive ecology of two polar bear populations

KD Rode, EV Regehr, DC Douglas… - Global Change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) have experienced substantial changes in the seasonal
availability of sea ice habitat in parts of their range, including the Beaufort, Chukchi, and …

Demography of an apex predator at the edge of its range: impacts of changing sea ice on polar bears in Hudson Bay

NJ Lunn, S Servanty, EV Regehr… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the abundance and distribution of wildlife populations are common
consequences of historic and contemporary climate change. Some Arctic marine mammals …