The Utility of Harvest Recoveries of Marked Individuals to Assess Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Survival

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Peacock, Elizabeth, Laake, Jeff, Laidre, Kristin L., Born, Erik W., Atkinson, Stephen N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2012
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; polar bear; Ursus maritimus; climate warming; community-based monitoring; harvest; mark-recapture; survival rates; baie de Baffin; ours polaire; réchauffement climatique; programme communautaire de surveillance; récolte; marquage et recapture; taux de survie; Baffin Island; Baie de Baffin; Canada; Greenland; Le Plateau; Arctic; Baffin; Groenland; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67284

Management of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) populations requires the periodic assessment of life history metrics such as survival rate. This information is frequently obtained during short-term capture and marking efforts (e.g., over the course of three years) that result in hundreds of marked bears...