Availability of suitable land-fast ice and predation as factors limiting ringed seal populations, Phoca hispida, in Svalbard

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Smith, Thomas G., Lydersen, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 1991
• Subjects: Svalbard; Nordaustlandet; Lair; glacier; Phoca hispida; Polar Research; ringed seal; Storfjorden; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2340; https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v10i2.6769

We examined the stability of fast ice areas in western and northern Spitsbergen, the area north of Nordaustlandet, the bays and sounds of Hinlopen Stretet and the large area in the northern part of Storfjorden. NOAA satellite imagery from 1974 and 1988 and NOAA (AVHRR) imagery from 1980-87 were used...