Adaptive long-term fasting in land and ice-bound polar bears: Coping with ice loss in the Arctic

• Main Author: Henry Harlow
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2012
• Subjects: ANS; Arctic; Adaptive long-term fasting in land- and ice-bound polar bears: coping with ice loss in the Arctic?; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:437299f3-6e06-411f-99fa-be9e273eb788

The population biology of polar bears occupying land in summer months is comparatively well known. Much less is known about the larger fraction of polar bear populations which stays on the ice through the summer. A better understanding of the physiology of fasting in both summer habitats is needed t...