A circumpolar monitoring framework for polar bears

The Problem of Scale in Indigenous Knowledge: a Perspective from Northern Australia

(2016) Marc Wohling   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Flavor or Forethought: Tuhoe Traditional Management Strategies for the Conservation of Kereru (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae) in New Zealand

(2016) Philip O'B. Lyver et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Ecological Science: a Question of Scale

(2016) Catherine A. Gagnon et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Unusual Predation Attempts of Polar Bears on Ringed Seals in the Southern Beaufort Sea: Possible Significance of Changing Spring Ice Conditions

(2014) Ian Stirling et al.   ARCTIC

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

The Utility of Harvest Recoveries of Marked Individuals to Assess Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Survival

(2014) Elizabeth Peacock et al.   ARCTIC

Monitoring sea ice habitat fragmentation for polar bear conservation

(2012) V. Sahanatien et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

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

(2012) Ian Stirling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temporal variations in Hudson Bay ringed seal (Phoca hispida) life-history parameters in relation to environment

(2012) Magaly Chambellant et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Sea ice type and open water discrimination using dual co-polarized C-band SAR

(2011) T Geldsetzer et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

MAGIC: MAp-Guided Ice Classification System

(2011) D A Clausi et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Conservation and management of Canada’s polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in a changing Arctic1This review is part of the virtual symposium “Flagship Species – Flagship Problems” that deals with ecology, biodiversity and management issues, and climate impacts on species at risk and of Canadian importance, including the polar bear (Ursus maritimus), Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus), and caribou (Rangifer tarandus).

(2011) E. Peacock et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

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

Importance of fast ice and glacier fronts for female polar bears and their cubs during spring in Svalbard, Norway

(2011) C Freitas et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Individual patterns of prey selection and dietary specialization in an Arctic marine carnivore

(2011) Gregory W. Thiemann et al.   OIKOS

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) maternity den distribution in Svalbard, Norway

(2011) Magnus Andersen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Is the poleward expansion by Atlantic cod and haddock threatening native polar cod, Boreogadus saida?

(2011) Paul E. Renaud et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

A tale of two polar bear populations: ice habitat, harvest, and body condition

(2011) Karyn D. Rode et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Study design and sampling intensity for demographic analyses of bear populations

(2011) Richard B. Harris et al.   URSUS

Predicting climate change impacts on polar bear litter size

(2011) Péter K. Molnár et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

Serum corticosteroid binding globulin expression is modulated by fasting in polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

(2010) Brian A. Chow et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

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

Health effects from long-range transported contaminants in Arctic top predators: An integrated review based on studies of polar bears and relevant model species

(2010) Christian Sonne   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Flame retardants and legacy contaminants in polar bears from Alaska, Canada, East Greenland and Svalbard, 2005–2008

(2010) Melissa A. McKinney et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Grizzly bear corticosteroid binding globulin: Cloning and serum protein expression

(2010) Brian A. Chow et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Changes in weather persistence: Insight from Inuit knowledge

(2010) E. Weatherhead et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Quantifying dietary pathways of proteins and lipids to tissues of a marine predator

(2010) Seth G. Cherry et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Steven C. Amstrup et al.   NATURE

Cortisol levels in hair of East Greenland polar bears

(2010) T.Ø. Bechshøft et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A proposed lexicon of terms and concepts for human–bear management in North America

(2010) John B. Hopkins et al.   URSUS

Do public complaints reflect trends in human–bear conflict?

(2010) Eric J. Howe et al.   URSUS

The mating system of polar bears: a genetic approach

(2009) E. Zeyl et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Linking Inuit knowledge and meteorological station observations to understand changing wind patterns at Clyde River, Nunavut

(2009) Shari Gearheard et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Predicting 21st-century polar bear habitat distribution from global climate models

(2009) George M. Durner et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Sea Ice-associated Diet Change Increases the Levels of Chlorinated and Brominated Contaminants in Polar Bears

(2009) Melissa A. McKinney et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

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

The Seasonal Atmospheric Response to Projected Arctic Sea Ice Loss in the Late Twenty-First Century

(2009) Clara Deser et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

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

Prevalence of Antibodies Against Toxoplasma gondii in Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) From Svalbard and East Greenland

(2009) A. Oksanen et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Demography and Genetic Structure of a Recovering Grizzly Bear Population

(2009) Katherine C. Kendall et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Using fatty acids to study marine mammal foraging: The evidence from an extensive and growing literature

(2009) G. W. Thiemann et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Demography and population viability of polar bears in the Gulf of Boothia, Nunavut

(2009) Mitchell K. Taylor et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal patterns of problem polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba

(2009) Lindsay Towns et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

The prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in polar bears and their marine mammal prey: evidence for a marine transmission pathway?

(2009) S. K. Jensen et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas in the Arctic

(2009) D. L. Gautier et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring

(2009) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Contributions of vital rates to growth of a protected population of American black bears

(2009) Michael S. Mitchell et al.   URSUS

Loss of Sea Ice in the Arctic

(2008) Donald K. Perovich et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Population genetic structure in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Hudson Bay, Canada: Implications of future climate change

(2008) Ashleigh E. Crompton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Sea Ice Thickness Measurements from a Community-Based Observing Network

(2008) A. Mahoney et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

QUANTIFYING THE SENSITIVITY OF ARCTIC MARINE MAMMALS TO CLIMATE-INDUCED HABITAT CHANGE

(2008) Kristin L. Laidre et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

POLAR BEAR DIETS AND ARCTIC MARINE FOOD WEBS: INSIGHTS FROM FATTY ACID ANALYSIS

(2008) Gregory W. Thiemann et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity

(2008) Jennifer L Molnar et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Hydroacoustic detection of large winter aggregations of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) at depth in ice-covered Franklin Bay (Beaufort Sea)

(2008) Delphine Benoit et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR-E 89-GHz channels

(2008) G. Spreen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

An Evaluation of Long-Term Capture Effects in Ursids: Implications for Wildlife Welfare and Research

(2008) Marc Cattet et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Quantitative Support for a Subjective Fatness Index for Immobilized Polar Bears

(2008) Ian Stirling et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Estimating the Barents Sea polar bear subpopulation size

(2008) J. Aars et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Polar bear Ursus maritimus conservation in Canada: an ecological basis for identifying designatable units

(2008) Gregory W. Thiemann et al.   ORYX

Differences in growth, size and sexual dimorphism in skulls of East Greenland and Svalbard polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

(2008) Thea Ø. Bechshøft et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

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

Sex-selective harvesting of polar bears Ursus maritimus

(2008) Mitchell K. Taylor et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY

Modelling the mating system of polar bears: a mechanistic approach to the Allee effect

(2007) P. K Molnar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES