Applying landscape fragmentation analysis to icescape environments: potential impacts for the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Himmelberger, Anthony, Frey, Karen E., Sangermano, Florencia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2022
• Subjects: Cryosphere; climate change; sea ice; remote sensing; Landsat; sea ice-obligate species; Arctic; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Chukchi; Climate change; Odobenus rosmarus; Polar Research; Sea ice; St Lawrence Island; Alaska; walrus*
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/5169; https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v41.5169

Sea-ice cover across the Arctic has declined rapidly over the past several decades owing to amplified climate warming. The Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) relies on sea-ice floes in the St. Lawrence Island (SLI) and Wainwright regions of the Bering and Chukchi seas surrounding Alaska as...