Supplementary material from "Conservation status of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to projected sea-ice declines"
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Loss of Arctic sea ice owing to climate change is the primary threat to polar bears throughout their range. We evaluated the potential response of polar bears to sea-ice declines by (i) calculating generation length (GL) for the species, which determines the timeframe for conservation assessments; (ii) developing a standardized sea-ice metric representing important habitat and (iii) using statistical models and computer simulation to project changes in the global population under three approaches relating polar bear abundance to sea ice. Mean GL was 11.5 years. Ice-covered days declined in all subpopulation areas during 1979-2014 (median -1.26 days year-1). The estimated probability that reductions in the mean global population size of polar bears will be greater than 30%, 50% and 80% over three generations (35-41 years) was 0.71 (range 0.20-0.95), 0.07 (range 0-0.35) and less than 0.01 (range 0-0.02), respectively. According to IUCN Red List reduction thresholds, which provide a common measure of extinction risk across taxa, these results are consistent with listing the species as vulnerable. Our findings support the potential for large declines in polar bear numbers owing to sea-ice loss, and highlight near-term uncertainty in statistical projections as well as the sensitivity of projections to different plausible assumptions.
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V. Regehr, Eric; Laidre, Kristin L.; Resit Akçakaya, H.; C. Amstrup, Steven; C. Atwood, Todd; Lunn, Nicholas J.; et al. (2016). Supplementary material from "Conservation status of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in relation to projected sea-ice declines". The Royal Society. Collection. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3569526.v1
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AUTHORS (10)
EV
Eric V. Regehr
KL
Kristin L. Laidre
HR
H. Resit Akçakaya
SC
Steven C. Amstrup
TC
Todd C. Atwood
NL
Nicholas J. Lunn
MO
Martyn Obbard
HS
Harry Stern
GW
Gregory W. Thiemann
ØW
Øystein Wiig