“Population level monitoring has substantiated the strong link between polar bear abundance and sea ice conditions,” Whiteman says. “But it takes an incredible amount of effort, and even when you are able to do that, it leaves open the question of: What is the mechanism? So sea ice did this in year X, and in the following year, the population did this, but why? Exactly how?”
Understanding with greater precision how individual polar bears interact with their environment is,…
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