Hibernation and seasonal fasting in bears: the energetic costs and consequences for polar bears

Polar Bear Distribution and Habitat Association Reflect Long-term Changes in Fall Sea Ice Conditions in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea

(2014) Jeffrey S. Gleason et al.   ARCTIC

Maternal condition determines birth date and growth of newborn bear cubs

(2012) Charles T. Robbins et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Polar bear population status in the northern Beaufort Sea, Canada, 1971–2006

(2011) Ian Stirling et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Guidelines of the American Society of Mammalogists for the use of wild mammals in research

(2011) Robert S. Sikes et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Sea ice and polar bear den ecology at Hopen Island, Svalbard

(2011) AE Derocher et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Hibernation in Black Bears: Independence of Metabolic Suppression from Body Temperature

(2011) O. Toien et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting survival, reproduction and abundance of polar bears under climate change

(2010) Péter K. Molnár et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Purification and partial characterization of an agglutinin from Octopus maya serum

(2010) Juan Alpuche et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Reduced body size and cub recruitment in polar bears associated with sea ice decline

(2010) Karyn D. Rode et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate change threatens polar bear populations: a stochastic demographic analysis

(2010) Christine M. Hunter et al.   ECOLOGY

Comments in response to “Estimating the energetic contribution of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) summer diets to the total energy budget” by Dyck and Kebreab (2009)

(2010) Karyn D. Rode et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Greenhouse gas mitigation can reduce sea-ice loss and increase polar bear persistence

(2010) Steven C. Amstrup et al.   NATURE

Has early ice clearance increased predation on breeding birds by polar bears?

(2010) Paul A. Smith et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Physiological response to extreme fasting in subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) pups: metabolic rates, energy reserve utilization, and water fluxes

(2009) Delphine Verrier et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Survival and breeding of polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea in relation to sea ice

(2009) Eric V. Regehr et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Cardiac function adaptations in hibernating grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis)

(2009) O. Lynne Nelson et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

A body composition model to estimate mammalian energy stores and metabolic rates from body mass and body length, with application to polar bears

(2009) P. K. Molnar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Estimating the Energetic Contribution of Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Summer Diets to the Total Energy Budget

(2009) Markus G. Dyck et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Elevated expression of protein biosynthesis genes in liver and muscle of hibernating black bears (Ursus americanus)

(2009) Vadim B. Fedorov et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS

An analysis of the factors that influence the level and scaling of mammalian BMR

(2008) Brian Keith McNab   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Effects of sea ice extent and food availability on spatial and temporal distribution of polar bears during the fall open-water period in the Southern Beaufort Sea

(2008) S. Schliebe et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY