Study Area Map (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Study Area Map

Caption

The striped area on the left shows the Chukchi Sea polar bear subpopulation's range. Sea ice reaches south to the dotted line in winter, and retreats to the solid black line in summer. The right shows a closeup of the study area off Alaska's coast. White circles show where polar bears were tagged between 2008 and 2016.

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Regehr <em>et al./Scientific Reports</em>

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