Historical and potential future importance of large whales as food for polar bears

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Conservation status of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to projected sea-ice declines

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Is it ‘boom times’ for baleen whales in the Pacific Arctic region?

(2016) Sue E. Moore   Biology Letters

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Rapid Environmental Change Drives Increased Land Use by an Arctic Marine Predator

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Whale-Fall Ecosystems: Recent Insights into Ecology, Paleoecology, and Evolution

(2015) Craig R. Smith et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Can polar bears use terrestrial foods to offset lost ice-based hunting opportunities?

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Polar bear–grizzly bear interactions during the autumn open-water period in Alaska

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Characterization of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) diets in the Canadian High Arctic

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Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity

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Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears

(2014) Shiping Liu et al.   CELL

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Polar Bears Exhibit Genome-Wide Signatures of Bioenergetic Adaptation to Life in the Arctic Environment

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Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects

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Polar bear use of a persistent food subsidy: Insights from non-invasive genetic sampling in Alaska

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When will the summer Arctic be nearly sea ice free?

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

(2013) Karyn D. Rode et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate Change and the Past, Present, and Future of Biotic Interactions

(2013) J. L. Blois et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological Consequences of Sea-Ice Decline

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Genomic Evidence for Island Population Conversion Resolves Conflicting Theories of Polar Bear Evolution

(2013) James A. Cahill et al.   PLoS Genetics

An evolutionary ecology of individual differences

(2012) Sasha R. X. Dall et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2012) Ian Stirling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Age and Sex Composition of Seals Killed by Polar Bears in the Eastern Beaufort Sea

(2012) Nicholas W. Pilfold et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) Steven C. Amstrup et al.   NATURE

Carcasses on the coastline: measuring the ecological fidelity of the cetacean stranding record in the eastern North Pacific Ocean

(2010) Nicholas D. Pyenson   PALEOBIOLOGY

Observations of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) in the Svalbard area 1940–2009

(2010) Øystein Wiig et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear

(2010) C. Lindqvist et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Isotopic homogeneity of breath CO2 from fasting and berry-eating polar bears: implications for tracing reliance on terrestrial foods in a changing Arctic

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

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UNDERSTANDING AND PREDICTING ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS: ARE MAJOR SURPRISES INEVITABLE

(2008) Daniel F. Doak et al.   ECOLOGY

Impact of a shrinking Arctic ice cover on marine primary production

(2008) Kevin R. Arrigo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS