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Increased Land Use by Chukchi Sea Polar Bears in Relation to Changing Sea Ice Conditions

Recent observations suggest that polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are increasingly using land habitats in some parts of their range, where they have minimal access to their preferred prey, likely in response to loss of their sea ice habitat associated with climatic warming. We used location data from f...

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Autores principales: Rode, Karyn D., Wilson, Ryan R., Regehr, Eric V., St. Martin, Michelle, Douglas, David C., Olson, Jay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651550/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26580809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142213