Divergent movements of walrus and sea ice in the northern Bering Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 407, Issue , 2010, Pages 293-302

  Jay, Chadwick V ^a   Udevitz, Mark S ^a   Kwok, Ron ^b   Fischbach, Anthony S ^a   Douglas, David C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Odobenus rosmarus; Pacific walrus; RADARSAT; RGPS; SAR; Sea ice; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

GPS; MOVEMENT; PINNIPED; RADARSAT; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEA ICE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BERING SEA; CHUKCHI SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ODOBENIDAE; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS DIVERGENS; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 77954118149     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08575     Document Type: Article

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