Long-term trends in the population ecology of polar bears in western Hudson Bay in relation to climatic change

Arctic

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 294-306

  Stirling, Ian ^a   Lunn, Nicholas J ^a   Iacozza, John ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Hudson Bay; Polar bear; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BODY CONDITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE BREAKUP; LONG-TERM CHANGE; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY;

CARNIVORA; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 0032717525     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic935     Document Type: Article

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