Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 In Greenland, polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are nutritional, economic, and cultural subsistence resources for Inuit. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) collected from subsistence hunters can provide important insights and improve management decisions
Kristin L. Laidre +2 more
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Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon by Michael Engelhard [PDF]
, 2017 Review of Michael Engelhard\u27s Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic ...
Pigeon, Geneviève
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Galactic Halo Stars in Phase Space :A Hint of Satellite Accretion? [PDF]
, 2003 The present day chemical and dynamical properties of the Milky Way bear the imprint of the Galaxy's formation and evolutionary history. One of the most enduring and critical debates surrounding Galactic evolution is that regarding the competition between
Berczik P. +5 more
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]
, 2017 Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A. +3 more
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Prolonged transition time between colostrum and mature milk in a bear, the giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca [PDF]
, 2015 Bears produce the most altricial neonates of any placental mammal. We hypothesized that the transition from colostrum to mature milk in bears reflects a temporal and biochemical adaptation for altricial development and immune protection.
Burchmore, Richard J. S. +9 more
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Generalized bioinspired approach to a daytime radiative cooling "skin"
, 2020 Energy-saving cooling materials with strong operability are desirable towards sustainable thermal management. Inspired by the cooperative thermo-optical effect in fur of polar bear, we develop a flexible and reusable cooling skin via laminating a ...
Guo, Jing +9 more
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Survival and divergence in a small group: The extraordinary genomic history of the endangered Apennine brown bear stragglers [PDF]
, 2017 About 100 km east of Rome, in the central Apennine Mountains, a critically endangered population of ∼50 brown bears live in complete isolation. Mating outside this population is prevented by several 100 km of bear-free territories.
Benazzo, Andrea +26 more
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Respect for Grizzly Bears: An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience [PDF]
, 2009 Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada.
Clarke, Douglas A., Slocombe, D. Scott
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Toward a non‐invasive inuit polar bear survey: Genetic data from polar bear hair snags
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2013 We explore the feasibility of collecting microsatellite genotypes of non‐invasively collected hair from free‐ranging polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in M'Clintock Channel, Nunavut, Canada.
Peter Van Coeverden De Groot +7 more
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Ikona, świadek, ofiara. Niedźwiedź polarny jako figura wizualna dyskursu zmiany klimatu
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2021 The article focuses on the media practice of using visual representations of polar bears to illustrate information about climate change. It starts with a short description about the iconic status that climate discourse attributes to these type of images.
Michał Piasecki
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