Demographic and traditional knowledge perspectives on the current status of Canadian polar bear subpopulations

Aerial surveys suggest long-term stability in the seasonally ice-free Foxe Basin (Nunavut) polar bear population

(2015) Seth Stapleton et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

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

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

(2014) Elizabeth Peacock et al.   ARCTIC

Revisiting Western Hudson Bay: Using aerial surveys to update polar bear abundance in a sentinel population

(2014) Seth Stapleton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

When will the summer Arctic be nearly sea ice free?

(2013) James E. Overland et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

Population ecology of polar bears in Davis Strait, Canada and Greenland

(2013) Elizabeth Peacock et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

(2013) D. Dahl-Jensen et al.   NATURE

Revisiting the Effect of Capture Heterogeneity on Survival Estimates in Capture-Mark-Recapture Studies: Does It Matter?

(2013) Fitsum Abadi et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Ian Stirling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

September Arctic sea ice predicted to disappear near 2°C global warming above present

(2012) Irina Mahlstein et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change

(2012) W. Miller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

Predicting climate change impacts on polar bear litter size

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

Bias in estimation of adult survival and asymptotic population growth rate caused by undetected capture heterogeneity

(2011) David Fletcher et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

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

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

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

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

(2010) Steven C. Amstrup et al.   NATURE

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

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

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

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

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

Value and Advocacy in Conservation Biology: Crisis Discipline or Discipline in Crisis?

(2008) Kai M. A. Chan   CONSERVATION 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