We used mark-recapture data and population viability analysis (PVA) to estimate demographic parameters, abundance, and harvest risks for two adjacent populations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) inhabiting Lancaster Sound and Norwegian Bay, Canada. Analyses were based on data from 1871 bears that were uniquely marked during the period 1972–97. Our best-fitting mark-recapture model specified sex and age effects on probabilities of survival and an effect of prior recapture (dependence) on capture probability. The most parsimonious solution in our analysis of survival was to assume the same rate for the Lancaster Sound and Norwegian Bay populations. Total (harvested) annual survival rates (mean ± 1 SE) for females included: 0.749 ± 0.105 (cubs...
A standardized, harvest-based monitoring program was conducted during the main under-ice subsistence...
Polar bears are important socio-cultural symbols in the communities of the Eeyou Marine Region (EMR)...
We conducted gamma spectrometric analyses on more than 200 arctic marine mammal tissue samples. Thes...
We estimated demographic parameters and harvest risks for a population of polar bears (Ursus maritim...
To retain viable polar bear subpopulations, scientific monitoring studies are conducted to inform ad...
Recognition that polar bears are shared by hunters in Canada and Alaska prompted development of the ...
Polar bears depend on sea ice for survival. Climate warming in the Arctic has caused significant dec...
Successful wildlife management depends upon coordination and consultation with local communities. Ho...
Practical tools to quantify range-wide dietary choices of the polar bear have not been well develope...
In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research on polar bear populations and their ecologic...
The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPR-A) in northeastern Alaska provides winter maternal dennin...
Across the central coast of Alaska’s North Slope, human-polar bear interactions concern both industr...
In a large polar bear denning area inland from the coast of western Hudson Bay south of Churchill, M...
Increasing interactions of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) with human activity, combined with impacts ...
The number of Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) on the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canadian High...
A standardized, harvest-based monitoring program was conducted during the main under-ice subsistence...
Polar bears are important socio-cultural symbols in the communities of the Eeyou Marine Region (EMR)...
We conducted gamma spectrometric analyses on more than 200 arctic marine mammal tissue samples. Thes...
We estimated demographic parameters and harvest risks for a population of polar bears (Ursus maritim...
To retain viable polar bear subpopulations, scientific monitoring studies are conducted to inform ad...
Recognition that polar bears are shared by hunters in Canada and Alaska prompted development of the ...
Polar bears depend on sea ice for survival. Climate warming in the Arctic has caused significant dec...
Successful wildlife management depends upon coordination and consultation with local communities. Ho...
Practical tools to quantify range-wide dietary choices of the polar bear have not been well develope...
In the eastern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf, research on polar bear populations and their ecologic...
The National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPR-A) in northeastern Alaska provides winter maternal dennin...
Across the central coast of Alaska’s North Slope, human-polar bear interactions concern both industr...
In a large polar bear denning area inland from the coast of western Hudson Bay south of Churchill, M...
Increasing interactions of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) with human activity, combined with impacts ...
The number of Peary caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) on the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canadian High...
A standardized, harvest-based monitoring program was conducted during the main under-ice subsistence...
Polar bears are important socio-cultural symbols in the communities of the Eeyou Marine Region (EMR)...
We conducted gamma spectrometric analyses on more than 200 arctic marine mammal tissue samples. Thes...