Phenotypic plasticity and climate change: can polar bears respond to longer Arctic summers with an adaptive fast?

Polar bears experience skeletal muscle atrophy in response to food deprivation and reduced activity in winter and summer

(2017) John P. Whiteman et al.   Conservation Physiology

Isotopic Incorporation and the Effects of Fasting and Dietary Lipid Content on Isotopic Discrimination in Large Carnivorous Mammals

(2016) K. D. Rode et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Summer refugia of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in the southern Beaufort Sea

(2016) Jodie D. Pongracz et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO 2 emission

(2016) Dirk Notz et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2016) Todd C. Atwood et al.   PLoS One

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

(2015) Karyn D Rode et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Multi-temporal factors influence predation for polar bears in a changing climate

(2015) Nicholas W. Pilfold et al.   OIKOS

Diet of female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea of Alaska: evidence for an emerging alternative foraging strategy in response to environmental change

(2015) M. C. Rogers et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Summer declines in activity and body temperature offer polar bears limited energy savings

(2015) J. P. Whiteman et al.   SCIENCE

Mapping the future expansion of Arctic open water

(2015) Katherine R. Barnhart et al.   Nature Climate Change

Stable Isotope Turnover and Half-Life in Animal Tissues: A Literature Synthesis

(2015) M. Jake Vander Zanden et al.   PLoS One

RETRACTED: Grizzly Bears Exhibit Augmented Insulin Sensitivity while Obese Prior to a Reversible Insulin Resistance during Hibernation

(2014) O. Lynne Nelson et al.   Cell Metabolism

Body size and activity times mediate mammalian responses to climate change

(2014) Christy M. McCain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and mammals: evolutionary versus plastic responses

(2013) Stan Boutin et al.   Evolutionary Applications

A Critical Examination of the Douglas Bag Technique

(2013) Roy J. Shephard   MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE

Metabolic Changes in Summer Active and Anuric Hibernating Free-Ranging Brown Bears (Ursus arctos)

(2013) Peter Stenvinkel et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Ian Stirling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon isotopes in exhaled breath track metabolic substrates in brown bears (Ursus arctos)

(2012) John P. Whiteman et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

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

(2011) O. Toien et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity and resilience of vertebrates to increasing climatic unpredictability

(2010) CI Canale et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Energy homeostasis regulatory peptides in hibernating grizzly bears

(2010) János Gardi et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Effect of starvation and refeeding on biochemical and immunological status of Balb/c mice: an experimental model of malnutrition

(2010) Humberto J. Morris et al.   IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY AND IMMUNOTOXICOLOGY

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

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

Intestinal lipid absorption

(2009) Jahangir Iqbal et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Plasma ghrelin concentrations change with physiological state in a sciurid hibernator (Spermophilus lateralis)

(2009) Jessica E. Healy et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

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

Variation in discrimination factors (Δ15N and Δ13C): the effect of diet isotopic values and applications for diet reconstruction

(2009) Stéphane Caut et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

Direct Effect of Glucocorticoids on Lipolysis in Adipocytes

(2009) Chong Xu et al.   MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

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

Relations between nutritional condition and survival of North American elk Cervus elaphus

(2008) Louis C. Bender et al.   WILDLIFE BIOLOGY