{"id":5224,"date":"2016-12-19T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2016-12-19T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T18:02:48","slug":"as-levels-of-sea-ice-decline-so-do-polar-bear-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/as-levels-of-sea-ice-decline-so-do-polar-bear-populations\/","title":{"rendered":"As levels of sea-ice decline, so do polar bear populations <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3580\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3580\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg\" alt=\"Polar bears, like these photographed near Hudson Bay in 2010, are in jeopardy due to decreasing ice cover in Canada\u2019s Arctic Archipelago. (Photo credit: Stephen Hamilton)\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polar bears, like these photographed near Hudson Bay in 2010, are in jeopardy due to decreasing ice cover in Canada\u2019s Arctic Archipelago. (Photo credit: Stephen Hamilton)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Arctic sea-ice is vital to polar bears&#8217; hunting and breeding habits. So it comes as no surprise that the decline in sea-ice as a result of anthropogenic climate change has a great effect on the polar bear populations. An international team of researchers further demonstrated this vital relationship by calculating probability in population decrease over the next three generations. Their findings support the species&#8217; status as &#8220;Vulnerable&#8221; by showing a great potential in polar bear population decline related to sea-ice loss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric V. Regehr, Kristin L. Laidre, H. Resit Ak\u00e7akaya, Steven C. Amstrup, Todd C. Atwood, Nicholas J. Lunn, Martyn Obbard, Harry Stern, Gregory W. Thiemann, \u00d8ystein Wiig<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian contributors: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas J. Lunn, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Edmonton, Alberta;<\/p>\n<p>Martyn Obbard, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Peterborough, Ontario;<\/p>\n<p>Harry Stern, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/12\/12\/20160556\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Biology Letters<\/em> on December 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arctic sea-ice is vital to polar bears&#8217; hunting and breeding habits. So it comes as no surprise that the decline in sea-ice as a result of anthropogenic climate change has a great effect on the polar bear populations. An international team of researchers further demonstrated this vital relationship by calculating probability in population decrease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[185,31,2783,187],"class_list":["post-5224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-arctic","tag-climate-change","tag-polar-bear","tag-sea-ice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Polar-Bears.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}