Polar bear research: has science helped management and conservation?

Confidence intervals for Journal Impact Factors

(2017) Lutz Bornmann   SCIENTOMETRICS

Demography of an apex predator at the edge of its range: impacts of changing sea ice on polar bears in Hudson Bay

(2016) Nicholas J. Lunn et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Arctic marine mammal population status, sea ice habitat loss, and conservation recommendations for the 21st century

(2015) Kristin L. Laidre et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Hospital organisation, management, and structure for prevention of health-care-associated infection: a systematic review and expert consensus

(2015) Walter Zingg et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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

(2014) Seth Stapleton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Spatially mapped reductions in the length of the Arctic sea ice season

(2014) Claire L. Parkinson   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Communicating marine environmental information to decision makers: Enablers and barriers to use of publications (grey literature) of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment

(2014) Danielle M. Cossarini et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Organising evidence for environmental management decisions: a ‘4S’ hierarchy

(2014) Lynn V. Dicks et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Publishing the best original research in animal ecology: looking forward from 2013

(2013) Tim Coulson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Failure of Research to Address the Rangewide Conservation Needs of Large Carnivores: Leopards in South Africa as a Case Study

(2013) Guy A. Balme et al.   Conservation Letters

Searching for sustainability: are assessments of wildlife harvests behind the times?

(2012) Karen Z. Weinbaum et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2012) Ian Stirling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Incidence and management of graft erosion, wound granulation, and dyspareunia following vaginal prolapse repair with graft materials: a systematic review

(2011) Husam Abed et al.   INTERNATIONAL UROGYNECOLOGY JOURNAL

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

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

Trouble with the Gray Literature

(2010) Richard T. Corlett   BIOTROPICA

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

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

(2010) Steven C. Amstrup et al.   NATURE

Doing more good than harm – Building an evidence-base for conservation and environmental management

(2009) Andrew S. Pullin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

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

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

The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge

(2008) J. Schipper et al.   SCIENCE