Projected polar bear sea ice habitat in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Hamilton, Stephen G ^a   De La Guardia, Laura Castro ^a   Derocher, Andrew E ^a   Sahanatien, Vicki ^a,b   Tremblay, Bruno ^c   Huard, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences University of Alberta ^*  (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT STRUCTURE; ICE COVER; NONHUMAN; POLAR BEAR; REPRODUCTION; SEA ICE; STARVATION; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; BEAR; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; ICE COVER; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URSIDAE;

EID: 84913553727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113746     Document Type: Article

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