Colorado Forest Health Report 1992-95: A Baseline Assessment

• Main Authors: Rogers, Paul C., Schomaker, M., McLain, W., Johnson, S.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Hosted by Utah State University Libraries 1998
• Subjects: Colorado; forest health; report; baseline assessment; Arctic; Cape Churchill; Churchill Peninsula; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Climate change; ringed seal; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wild_facpub/250

Climate change driven advances in the date of sea ice breakup will increasingly lead to a loss of spring polar bear foraging opportunities on ringed seal pups creating a phenological trophic ‘mismatch’. However, the same shift will lead to a new ‘match’ between polar bears and ground nesting birds....