Changes in the distribution of nesting Arctic seaducks are not strongly related to variation in polar bear presence

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Dey, Cody J., Semeniuk, Christina A.D., Iverson, Samuel A., Gilchrist, H. Grant
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Climate change; Common Eider; Hudson Strait; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/as-2019-0017; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/as-2019-0017; https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/as-2019-0017

Contemporary climate change is predicted to expose some species to altered predation regimes. Losses of Arctic sea ice are causing polar bears to increasingly forage on colonial seaduck eggs in lieu of ice-based hunting of marine mammals. Although polar bear predation of bird eggs has now been widel...