Polar Bear (Ursus Maritimus) Foraging Ecology in the Western Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Florko, Katie Rae Nettie
• Other Authors: Thiemann, Gregory
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Zoology; Polar bear (Ursus maritimus); Canadian Arctic; Foraging ecology; Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis; Climate change; Sea ice; Beaufort Sea; Arctic marine food web; Arctic; Melville Sound; Viscount Melville Sound; Ursus maritimus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34565

Climate change has led to abrupt declines in sea ice over the past three decades. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) rely on sea ice as their primary habitat to hunt marine mammal prey. Due to their position at the top of the Arctic marine food web, polar bear foraging patterns can provide insights on ec...