Declining Extent of Open-water Refugia for Top Predators in Baffin Bay and Adjacent Waters

Global climate change is expected to severely impact Arctic ecosystems, yet predictions of impacts are complicated by region-specific patterns and nonuniform trends. Twentyfour open-water overwintering areas (or “microhabitats”) were identified to be of particular importance for eight seabird and ma...

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Published in:AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
Main Authors: Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Kristin L. Laidre
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2004
Subjects:
Arctic
Baffin Bay
Foxe Basin
Greenland
Hudson
Hudson Bay
Hudson Strait
Lancaster Sound
Baffin
Climate change
Davis Strait
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1579/0044-7447-33.8.487

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