A pilot(less) study on the use of an unmanned aircraft system for studying polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

Inuit perspectives of polar bear research: lessons for community-based collaborations

(2017) Pamela B.Y. Wong et al.   POLAR RECORD

Unmanned aircraft systems as a new source of disturbance for wildlife: A systematic review

(2017) Margarita Mulero-Pázmány et al.   PLoS One

Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Behavior near Icebreaker Operations in the Chukchi Sea, 1991

(2016) Mari A. Smultea et al.   ARCTIC

Feasibility of using high-resolution satellite imagery to assess vertebrate wildlife populations

(2016) Michelle A. LaRue et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

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

Unmanned aircraft systems in wildlife research: current and future applications of a transformative technology

(2016) Katherine S Christie et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Spectral Reflectance of Polar Bear and Other Large Arctic Mammal Pelts; Potential Applications to Remote Sensing Surveys

(2016) George Leblanc et al.   Remote Sensing

Noninvasive unmanned aerial vehicle provides estimates of the energetic cost of reproduction in humpback whales

(2016) Fredrik Christiansen et al.   Ecosphere

Practical Bias Correction in Aerial Surveys of Large Mammals: Validation of Hybrid Double-Observer with Sightability Method against Known Abundance of Feral Horse (Equus caballus) Populations

(2016) Bruce C. Lubow et al.   PLoS One

Bears Show a Physiological but Limited Behavioral Response to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

(2015) Mark A. Ditmer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Are unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) the future of wildlife monitoring? A review of accomplishments and challenges

(2015) Julie Linchant et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

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

A small unmanned aerial system for estimating abundance and size of Antarctic predators

(2015) Michael E. Goebel et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Testing methods for using high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor polar bear abundance and distribution

(2015) Michelle A. LaRue et al.   WILDLIFE SOCIETY BULLETIN

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

(2014) Seth Stapleton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Polar Bears from Space: Assessing Satellite Imagery as a Tool to Track Arctic Wildlife

(2014) Seth Stapleton et al.   PLoS One

Lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles will revolutionize spatial ecology

(2013) Karen Anderson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Effects of chemical immobilization on the movement rates of free-ranging polar bears

(2013) Gregory W. Thiemann et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

A hybrid double-observer sightability model for aerial surveys

(2013) Paul C. Griffin et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Unmanned Aerial Survey of Elephants

(2013) Cédric Vermeulen et al.   PLoS One

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Surveying Marine Fauna: A Dugong Case Study

(2013) Amanda Hodgson et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Ian Stirling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluation of an off-the-shelf Unmanned Aircraft System for Surveying Flocks of Geese

(2012) Dominique Chabot et al.   WATERBIRDS

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

Impacts of changing sea-ice conditions on Arctic marine mammals

(2010) Kit M. Kovacs et al.   Marine Biodiversity

Loss of Arctic sea ice causing punctuated change in sightings of killer whales (Orcinus orca) over the past century

(2009) Jeff W. Higdon et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Thermal and Narrowband Multispectral Remote Sensing for Vegetation Monitoring From an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

(2009) J. Berni et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Estimating the Barents Sea polar bear subpopulation size

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