Predicting climate change impacts on polar bear litter size

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Molnár, Péter K ^a,c   Derocher, Andrew E ^a   Klanjscek, Tin ^b   Lewis, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; NONHUMAN; POLAR BEAR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; SEA ICE;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84880280789     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1183     Document Type: Article

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