Controversies in Science/Are humans causing global warming/A critique of Possible Impacts of Climatic Warming on Polar Bears
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(Review Paper) Cited in Controversies in Science/Are humans causing global warming/A critique of Possible Impacts of Climatic Warming on Polar Bears
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[edit | edit source]Global Warming is Affecting the Polar Bears
[edit | edit source]Polar Bears are under a lot of stress due to the prolonged ice-free period which lasts four months. This in turn increases nutritional stress on the polar bear populations. This affects Polar Bears in numerous ways, examples are: declining body conditions, lowered reproductive rates, reduced survival of cubs, cause of collapse when it comes to polar bear maternity dens, which causes the deaths of the occupants[1].
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[edit | edit source]- ↑ Stirling, I & Derocher,A.(1993). Possible Impacts of Climatic Warming on Polar Bears. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/40511411