ARCTIC A Review of the Developmental, Behavioural and Physiological Adaptations of the Ringed Seal, Phoca hispida, to Life in the Arctic Winter
ABSTRACT. Ringed seals, Phoca hispida, the smallest of the marine arctic pinnipeds, are one of only two seal species in the world adapted to life in the land-fast sea ice. The habitat is characterized by a stable ice platform forming in early winter and lies at latitudes subject to extreme low tempe...
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1990
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.496.594 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic44-2-124.pdf |