Influence of climate change on summer-fall distribution of pacific walrus in the western Bering Sea: analysis of reasons and consequences

• Main Authors: Sergey V. Zagrebelny, Anatoly A. Kochnev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Transactions of the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography 2017
• Subjects: тихоокеанский морж; odobenus rosmarus divergens; распределение; береговые лежбища; миграционная активность; анадырский залив; чукотка; камчатка; pacific walrus; walruses distribution; coastal rookery; walruses migration; anadyr bay; chukotka; kamchatka peninsula; Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling; SH1-691; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Arctic; Bering Sea; Cape Dezhnev; Chukchi Sea; Enmelen; Kamchatka Peninsula; Krest; Pacific; Shmidt; Anadyr'; Chukchi; Chukotka; Climate change; Kamchatka; Odobenus rosmarus; Sea ice; КАМЧАТК*; ЧУКОТКА; walrus*; Морж
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2017-190-102-111; https://doaj.org/article/8cd835ed9179420ca800958f90aa12a0

Recently the sea ice edge at Chukotka retreats further northward in summer and new ice formation begins in a month later in autumn than in previous decades because of climate change that changes the pacific walrus Odobenus rosmarus divergens habitat. Now the Bering Sea becomes completely clear of th...