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Histomorphologic and Immunohistochemical Characterization of a Cardiac Purkinjeoma in a Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) [PDF]
Case Reports in Veterinary Medicine, 2014 The most common cardiac tumors of heart muscle are rhabdomyomas, solitary or multiple benign tumors of striated muscle origin. While cardiac rhabdomyomas are well described in human medical literature, limited information depicting the occurrence of ...
G. Krafsur +8 more
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Design and performance analysis of a novel face gas seal [PDF]
, 2006 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The scope of this work carried two objectives, each focusing on theoretical model development, performance prediction and experimental evaluation of two ...
Roberts-Haritonov, Lev
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Habitat selection and seasonal movements of young bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) in the Bering Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The first year of life is typically the most critical to a pinniped's survival, especially for Arctic phocids which are weaned at only a few weeks of age and left to locate and capture prey on their own. Their seasonal movements and habitat selection are
Michael F Cameron +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from the southern Beaufort Sea (SB) subpopulation have traditionally fed predominantly upon ice‐seals; however, as the proportion of the subpopulation using onshore habitat has recently increased, foraging on land‐based ...
Jennifer Bourque +4 more
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Ice-generated sound and its potential masking effects on bearded seal vocalizations in the western Canadian Arctic [PDF]
JASA Express LettersQuantifying acoustic masking due to noise sources is an important part of marine mammal conservation. This study examines the relative masking of bearded seal vocalizations by ice-generated sounds, using passive acoustic data collected from the western ...
Najeem Shajahan +7 more
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Age and sex composition of seals killed by polar bears in the eastern Beaufort Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the Beaufort Sea enter hyperphagia in spring and gain fat reserves to survive periods of low prey availability. We collected information on seals killed by polar bears (n=650) and hunting attempts on ringed seal (Pusa ...
Nicholas W Pilfold +4 more
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Arctic Science, 2017 Predator foraging behaviour is influenced by a suite of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, including energetic requirements, resource availability, and habitat conditions.
Luana Sciullo +3 more
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The commercial harvest of ice-associated seals in the Sea of Okhotsk, 1972-1994.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Sealing log books from 75 out of 79 commercial harvest cruises carried out between 1972 and 1994 in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia, were analyzed to describe spatial and temporal allocation of ice-associated seal harvest effort, species composition of ...
Irina S Trukhanova +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2015 There is a lack of information regarding critical habitats for many marine species, including the bearded seal, an important subsistence species for the indigenous residents of Arctic regions.
Patrick M. Olsen +2 more
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Journal of Glaciology, 2021 The inaugural data from the first systematic program of sea-ice observations in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, in 2018 coincided with the first winter in living memory when the Sound was not choked with ice.
Andrew R. Mahoney +13 more
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