Data from: Implications of the circumpolar genetic structure of polar bears for their conservation in a rapidly warming Arctic

• Main Authors: Peacock, Elizabeth, Sonsthagen, Sarah A., Obbard, Martyn E., Boltunov, Andrei, Regehr, Eric V., Ovsyanikov, Nikita, Aars, Jon, Atkinson, Stephen N., Sage, George K., Hope, Andrew G., Zeyl, Eve, Bachmann, Lutz, Ehrich, Dorothee, Scribner, Kim T., Amstrup, Steven C., Belikov, Stanislav, Born, Erik W., Derocher, Andrew E., Stirling, Ian, Taylor, Mitchell K., Wiig, Øystein, Paetkau, David, Talbot, Sandra L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; polar bear; population genetics; mitochondrial DNA; hybridization; phylogeography; phylogenetics; climate change; conservation; Baffin Bay; Barents Sea; Canada; Chukchi Sea; Foxe Basin; Greenland; Gulf of Boothia; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Kane; Kara Sea; Lancaster Sound; Laptev Sea; M'Clintock; M'Clintock Channel; Norwegian Bay; Baffin; Beaufort Sea; brown bear; Canadian Archipelago; Chukchi; Climate change; Davis Strait; East Greenland; Kane Basin; laptev; Sea ice; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.71925; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v2j1r

We provide an expansive analysis of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) circumpolar genetic variation during the last two decades of decline in their sea-ice habitat. We sought to evaluate whether their genetic diversity and structure have changed over this period of habitat decline, how their current gene...