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Publications

  1. 170.

    Laidre, K. L. and S. N. Atkinson. 2024. Icing-related injuries in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) at high latitudes. Ecology http://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4435

  2. 169.

    Laidre, K. L., M. Zahn, M. Simon, M. Ladegaard, K. Stafford, I. Fenty, E. Phillips, T. Moon, H. Stern, B. Cohen. 2024. Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) associations with Greenland’s summer meltwater release. Ecosphere 15 (10). DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70024

  3. 168.

    Zahn, M. J., Laidre, K. L., Simon, M., Stafford, K. M., Wood, M., Willis, J. K., Phillips, E. M., Fenty, I. 2024. Consistent seasonal hydrography from moorings at Northwest Greenland glacier fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 129, e2024JC021046. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021046

  4. 167.

    Moon T. A., B. Cohen, T. Black, K. L. Laidre, H. Stern, I. Joughin. 2024. Characterizing Southeast Greenland fjord surface ice and freshwater flux to support biological applications. The Cryosphere 18: 4845–4872, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-4845-2024.

  5. 166.

    Rivkin, R., E. Richardson, J. Miller, T. Atwood, S. Baryluk, E. W. Born, C. Davis, M. Dyck, E. de Greef, K. L. Laidre, N. Lunn, S. McCarthy, M. Obbard, M. Owen, N. Pilfold, A. Roberto-Charron, O. Wiig, A. Wilder, C. Garroway. 2024. Assessing the risk of climate maladaptation for Canadian polar bears. Ecology Letters 27(8):e14486 doi: 10.1111/ele.14486.

  6. 165.

    Ross, S., G. W. K. Moore, K. L. Laidre. 2024. An Examination of the Wrangel Island Sea Ice Thickness Dipole. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans 129(6) e2023JC020425

  7. 164.

    Miller, J.M., R. M Malenfant, L Ruth Rivkin, T. C Atwood, E. W Born, R. Dietz, K. L. Laidre, J. Pongracz, E. S Richardson, Ø. Wiig, C. S Davis. 2024. Development of an 8K SNP chip to assess adaptive diversity and hybridization in polar bears. Conservation Genetics Resources 61:237-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-024-01359-1

  8. 163.

    Stirling, I., L. E. Burns, K. L. Laidre, E. V. Regehr, and C. Spencer. 2024. Nursing behavior of wild polar bears in the Canadian High Arctic.  Canadian Journal of Zoology. 102(8): 663–672. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2024-0001

  9. 162.

    Zahn, M. J., M. Ladegaard, M. Simon, K. M. Stafford, T. Sakai, K. L. Laidre. 2024. Accurate species classification of Arctic toothed whale echolocation clicks using one-third octave ratios. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155 (4): 2359–2370. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0025460.

  10. 161.

    Stern, J. H., K. L. Laidre, E. W. Born, Ø. Wiig, M. A. McKinney. 2024. Space-use strategies drive diet composition of Baffin Bay polar bears. Ecosphere 15(4): e4826. https://doi.org/10.1002/ ecs2.4826

  11. 160.

    Laidre, K. L., J. Ware, M. Zahn, P. Hegelund and J. Aars. 2024. First recorded ice entrapment of a beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) in East Greenland. Polar Research 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.33265/polar.v43.9844

  12. 159.

    Regehr, E. V., K. L. Laidre, T. Atwood, H. Stern, B. Cohen. 2023. Sea-ice conditions predict polar bear land use around military installations in Alaska. Human-Wildlife Interactions 17(1):21–36

  13. 158.

    Laidre, K. L., T. W. Arnold, E. V. Regehr, S. N. Atkinson, E. W. Born, Ø. Wiig, N. J. Lunn, M. Dyck, H. L. Stern, S. Stapleton, B. Cohen, D. Paetkau. 2023. Demographic response of a high-Arctic polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulation to changes in sea ice and subsistence harvest. Endangered Species Research 51:73-87. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01239.

  14. 157.

    Merkel, B. , J. Aars, K. L. Laidre , J. Fox. 2023. Light-level geolocation as a tool to monitor polar bear (Ursus maritimus) denning ecology: a case study. Animal Biotelemetry 11:11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-023-00323-4

  15. 156.

    Lindsay, J. M., D. D. W. Hauser, A. R. Mahoney, K. L. Laidre, J. Goodwin, C. Harris, R. J. Schaeffer, R. Schaeffer Sr., A. V. Whiting, P. L. Boveng, N. J. M. Laxague, S. Betcher, A. Subramaniam, C. R. Witte, and C. J. Zappa. 2023. Characteristics of ringed seal (natchiq, Pusa hispida) denning habitat in Kotzebue Sound during a year of limited sea ice and snow. Marine Ecology Progress Series 705:1-20. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14252

  16. 155.

    Escajeda, E.D. K. M. Stafford, R. A. Woodgate, K. L. Laidre. 2023. Quantifying the effect of ship noise on the acoustic environment of the Bering Strait. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 187: 114557 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114557

  17. 154.

    Johnson, C. J., J. R. Hale, M. Tim Tinker, E. U. Foster, J. F. Samhouri, A. O. Shelton, K. L. Laidre. 2023. Rapid kelp crab consumption: Implications for Washington sea otters. Northwestern Naturalist 104:47-66.

  18. 153.

    Franz, M., L. Whyte, T. C. Atwood, D. Menning, S. A. Sonsthagen, S. L. Talbot, K. L. Laidre, E. Gonzalez, M. A. McKinney. 2023. Fecal DNA metabarcoding shows credible short-term prey detections and explains variation in the gut microbiome of two polar bear subpopulations. Marine Ecology Progress Series 704: 131–147. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14228

  19. 152.

    Straneo, F., D.A. Slater, C. Bouchard, M.R. Cape, M. Carey, L. Ciannelli, J. Holte, P. Matrai, K. Laidre, C. Little, L. Meire, H. Seroussi, and M. Vernet. 2022. An interdisciplinary perspective on Greenland’s changing coastal margins. Oceanography 35. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.128.

  20. 151.

    Moore G.W.K., M. Steele, A. Schweiger, J. Zhang, K. L. Laidre. 2022. Thick and old sea ice in the Beaufort Sea during summer 2020/21 was associated with enhanced transport. Communications Earth & Environment 3: 198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00530-6

  21. 150.

    Laidre K. L., M. A. Supple, E. W. Born, E. V. Regehr, Ø. Wiig, F. Ugarte, J. Aars, R. Dietz, C. Sonne, P. Hegelund, C. Isaksen, G. B. Akse, B. Cohen, H. L. Stern, T. Moon, C. Vollmers, R. Corbett-Detig, D. Paetkau, and B. Shapiro. 2022. Glacial ice supports a distinct and undocumented polar bear subpopulation persisting in late 21st-century sea-ice conditions. Science 376 (6599): 1333-1338. DOI: 10.1126/science.abk2793

  22. 149.

    Wang M.S., G. G. R. Murray, D. Mann, P. Groves, R. Corbett-Detig, A. O. Vershinina, M. Supple,  J. D. Kapp, S. Crump, I. Stirling, K. L. Laidre, M. Kunz, L. Dalén, R. E. Green, B. Shapiro. 2022. A polar bear paleogenome reveals extensive archaic gene flow from polar bears into brown bears. Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:936-944. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01753-8

  23. 148.

    Hamilton, C. D., C. Lydersen, J. Aars, M. Acquarone, T. Atwood, A. Baylis, M Biuw, A. N. Boltunov, E. W. Born, P. Boveng, T. M. Brown, M. Cameron, J. Citta, J. Crawford, R. Dietz, J. Elias, S. H. Ferguson, A. Fisk, L. P. Folkow, K. J. Frost, D. M. Glazov, S. M.Granquist, R. Gryba, L. Harwood, T. Haug., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, N. E. Hussey, J. Kalinek, K. L. Laidre, D. I. Litovka, J. M. London, L. L. Loseto, S. MacPhee, M. Marcoux, C. J. D. Matthews, K. Nilssen, E. S. Nordøy, G. O’Corry-Crowe, N. Øien, M. Olsen, L. Quakenbush, A. Rosing-Asvid, V. Semenova, K.E.W. Shelden, O. V. Shpak, G. Stenson, L. Storrie, S. Sveegaard, J. Teilmann, F. Ugarte, A L. Von Duyke, C. Watt, Ø. Wiig, R. R. Wilson, D. J. Yurkowski, K. M. Kovacs. 2022. Marine mammal hotspots across the circumpolar Arctic. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13543

  24. 147.

    1. Laidre, K. L., G. M. Durner, N. J. Lunn, E. V. Regehr, T. C. Atwood, K. D. Rode, J. Aars, H. Routti, Ø. Wiig, M. Dyck, E. S. Richardson, S. Atkinson, S. Belikov, and I. Stirling. 2022. The role of satellite telemetry data in 21st century conservation of polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.816666

  25. 146.

    1. Stirling, I., E. V. Regehr, C., Spencer, L. E Burns, and K. L. Laidre. 2022. Using Visual Observations to Compare the Behavior of Previously Immobilized and Non-immobilized Wild Polar Bears. Arctic 75: 398-412

  26. 145.

    1. Mattmüller, R. M., K. Thomisch, I. Van Opzeeland, K. L. Laidre and M. J. Simon. 2022. Passive acoustic monitoring reveals year-round marine mammal community composition off Tasiilaq, Southeast Greenland. JASA 151(2). https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0009429

  27. 144.

    1. Franz, M., L. Whyte, T. C. Atwood, K. L. Laidre, D. Roy, S. E. Watson, E. Góngora and A. McKinney. 2022. Distinct gut microbiomes in two polar bear subpopulations inhabiting different sea ice ecoregions. Scientific Reports 12:522 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04340-2

  28. 143.

    1. Wiig, Ø., S. N. Atkinson, E. W. Born, S. Stapleton, T. Arnold, M. Dyck, K. L. Laidre, N. J. Lunn, and E. V. Regehr. 2022. An On-ice aerial survey of the Kane Basin polar bear subpopulation. Polar Biology 45: 89-100.

  29. 142.

    1. Hale, J. R., K. L. Laidre, S. J. Jeffries, J. J. Scordino, D. Lynch, R. J. Jameson, and M. T. Tinker. 2022. Status, trends, and equilibrium abundance estimates of the translocated sea otter population in Washington State. Journal of Wildlife Management. 86(4) e22215. doi:10.1002/jwmg.22215

  30. 141.

    1. Zahn, M. J., S. Rankin, J. L. K. McCullough, J. C. Koblitz, F. Archer, M. H. Rasmussen, and K. L. Laidre. 2021. Acoustic differentiation and classification of wild belugas and narwhals using echolocation clicks. Scientific Reports 11: 22141. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01441-w

  31. 140.

    1. Ladegaard, M., J. Macauley, M. Simon, K. L. Laidre, A. Mitseva, S. Videsen, M. Bjerre Pedersen, J. Tougaard, P. Teglberg Madsen. 2021. Soundscape and ambient noise levels of the Arctic waters around Greenland. Scientific Reports 11: 23360.

  32. 139.

    1. Zahn, M., J., K. L. Laidre, P. Stilz, M. H. Rasmussen, and J. C. Koblitz. 2021. Vertical sonar beam width and scanning behavior of wild belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) in West Greenland. PLoS ONE 16(9): e0257054. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257054

  33. 138.

    1. Stern J.H., K. L. Laidre, E. Born, Ø. Wiig, C. Sonne, R. Dietz, A. Fisk, M. McKinney. 2021. Feeding habits of Baffin Bay polar bears (Ursus maritimus): insight from stable isotopes and total mercury in hair. Marine Ecology Progress Series 677: 233–244 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13864

  34. 137.

    1. Atkinson, S., K. L. Laidre, T. Arnold, S. Stapleton, E. Regehr, E. Born, Ø. Wiig, M. Dyck, N. Lunn, H. Stern, and D. Paetkau. 2021. A novel mark-recapture-recovery survey using genetic sampling for polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Baffin Bay. Endangered Species Research 46:105-120 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01148

  35. 136.

    1. Lindsay, J., K. L. Laidre, P. Conn, E. Mooreland, and P. Boveng. 2021. Modeling ringed seal Pusa hispida habitat and emergence timing in the eastern Bering and Chukchi seas. Endangered Species Research 46:1–17. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01140

  36. 135.

    1. Stirling, I., K. L. Laidre and E. W. Born. 2021. Do Wild Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) Use Tools When Hunting Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus)? Arctic 74(2): 175-187

  37. 134.

    Schweiger, A., M. Steele, J. Zhang, G. K. Moore, K. L. Laidre. 2021. Accelerated sea ice loss in the Wandel Sea points to a change in the Arctic’s Last Ice Area. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 2(122): DOI 10.1038/s43247-021-00197-5

  38. 133.

    Banas, N. S., E. Friis Møller, K. L. Laidre, M. Simon, I. H Ellingsen, T. G Nielsen. 2021. Reconciling behavioral, bioenergetic, and oceanographic views of bowhead whale predation on overwintering copepods at an Arctic hotspot (Disko Bay, Greenland). Frontiers in Marine Science 8:592. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.614582

  39. 132.

    Nelms, S.E., Alfaro-Shigueto J., Arnould, J.P.Y., Avila, I.C., Bengtson Nash S., Campbell E., Carter M.I.D., Collins T., Currey R.J.C., Domit C., Franco-Trecu V., Fuentes M.M.P.B., Gilman E., Harcourt R.G., Hines E.M., Hoelzel A.R., Hooker S.K., Johnston D.W., Kelkar N., Kiszka J.J., Laidre K.L., Mangel J.C., Marsh H., Maxwell S.M., Onoufriou A.B., Palacios D.M., Pierce G.J., Ponnampalam L.S., Porter L.J., Russell D.J.F., Stockin K.A., Sutaria D., Wambiji N., Weir C.R., Wilson B., Godley B.J. 2021. Marine mammal conservation: Over the horizon. Endangered Species Research 44:291-325. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01115

  40. 131.

    Hamilton, C. D., C. Lydersen, J. Aars, M. Biuw, A. N. Boltunov, E. W. Born, R. Dietz, L. P. Folkow, D. M. Glazov, M.P. Heide-Jørgensen, L. E. Kettemer, K. L. Laidre, N. Øien, E. S. Nordøy, A. Rikardsen, A. Rosing-Asvid, V. Semenova, O. V. Shpak, Ø. Wiig, K. M. Kovacs. 2021. Marine mammal hotspots in the Greenland and Barents Seas – revealed by biotelemetry data collected between 2005 and 2019.  Marine Ecology Progress Series 659:3-28 https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13584

  41. 130.

    Tinker, R., J. Yee, K. L. Laidre, B. Hatfield, M. Harris, J. Tomoleoni, T. Bell, E. Saarman, L. Carswell, K. Miles.  2021. Biotic and abiotic habitat features predict local and range-wide carrying capacity of a recovering marine carnivore. Journal of Wildlife Management. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21985

  42. 129.

    Laidre K. L., S. N. Atkinson, E. V. Regehr, H. Stern, E. W. Born, Ø. Wiig, N. J. Lunn, M. Dyck, P. Heagerty, B. Cohen. 2020. Transient benefits of climate change for a high Arctic polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulation. Global Change Biology 26(11): 6251-6265. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15286

  43. 128.

    Chambault P., O.M. Tervo, E. Garde, R.G. Hansen, S.B. Blackwell, T.M. Williams, R. Dietz, C.M. Albertsen, K. L. Laidre, N.H. Nielsen, P. Richard, M.H.S. Sinding, H.C. Schmidt, M.P. Heide-Jørgensen. 2020. The impact of rising sea temperatures on an Arctic top predator, the narwhal. Scientific Reports. In Press.

  44. 127.

    Boye, T., M. Simon, K. L. Laidre, F. Riget and K. Stafford. 2020. Seasonal detections of bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) vocalizations in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait in relation to sea ice concentration. Polar Biology: 43: 1493–1502. 10.1007/s00300-020-02723-1

  45. 126.

    Laidre, K. L. and I. Stirling. 2020. Grounded icebergs as maternity denning habitat for polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in North and Northeast Greenland. Polar Biology 43(7): 937-943, 10.1007/s00300-020-02695-2

  46. 125.

    Ugarte, F Rosing-Asvid, A., Heide-Jørgensen, M.P., Laidre, K. L. 2020. Marine Mammals of the Greenland Seas. In: Goldstein, M.I., DellaSala, D.A. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes, vol. 2. Elsevier, pp. 575–586.

  47. 124.

    Escajeda, E., K. M. Stafford, R. A. Woodgate, K. L. Laidre. 2020. Variability in fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) occurrence in the Bering Strait and southern Chukchi Sea in relation to environmental factors. Deep Sea Research II 177: 104782

  48. 123.

    Laidre, K. L., S. Atkinson, E. V. Regehr, H. L. Stern, E. W. Born, Ø. Wiig, N. J. Lunn, M. Dyck. 2020. Interrelated ecological impacts of climate change on an apex predator. Ecological Applications 30(4): e02071 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2071

  49. 122.

    Stirling, I., K. L. Laidre, A. E. Derocher, and R. Muirs. 2019. The ecological and behavioral significance of short-term food caching in polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Arctic Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/as-2019-0008

  50. 121.

    Post, E., R. B. Alley, T. R. Christensen, M. Macias-Fauri, B. C. Forbes, M. Gooseff, A. Iler, J. T. Kerby, K. L. Laidre, M. E. Mann, J. Olofsson, J. C. Stroeve, F. Ulmer, R. Virginia, and M. Wang. 2019. The Polar Regions in a 2oC warmer world. Science Advances. 5(12) eaaw9883.

  51. 120.

    Byrne, A., M. A. Supple, R. Volden, K. L. Laidre, B. Shapiro, C. Vollmers. 2019. Depletion of hemoglobin transcripts and long read sequencing improves the transcriptome annotation of the polar bear (Ursus maritimus). Frontiers in Genetics. 10:643. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00643

  52. 119.

    Straneo, F., D. A Sutherland, L. A Stearns, G. Catania, P. Heimbach, T. Moon, M. Rolf Cape, K. L. Laidre, D. Barber, S. Rysgaard, R. Mottram, S. M Olsen, M. J. Hopwood, L. Meire. 2019. The Case for a Sustained Greenland Ice Sheet-Ocean Observing System (GrIOOS). Frontiers in Marine Science.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00138

  53. 118.

    Wiig, Ø, P. Henrichsen, T. Sjøvold, E.W. Born, K. L. Laidre, R. Dietz, C. Sonne, J. Aars. 2019. Variation in non-metrical skull traits (1830-2013) across East Greenland and adjacent polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulations. Polar Biology 42(3):461-474.

  54. 117.

    Hale, J. R., K. L. Laidre, M. T. Tinker, R. J. Jameson, S. J. Jeffries, S. E. Larson, J. L. Bodkin. In Press. Influence of occupation history and habitat on Washington sea otter diet. Marine Mammal Science. DOI 10.1111/mms.12598

  55. 116.

    Laidre, K. L., I. Stirling, J. Estes, A. Kochnev and J. Roberts. 2018. Historical and potential future importance of large whales as food for polar bears. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 16(9): 515-524 doi.org/10.1002/fee.1963

  56. 115.

    Rode, K. D., J. K. Fortina, D. Garshelis, M. Dyck, V. Sahanatien, T. Atwood, S. Belikov, K. L. Laidre, M. E. Obbard, D. Vongraven, J. Ware, J. Wilder. 2018. Survey-based assessment of the frequency and potential impacts of recreation on polar bears.  Biological Conservation. 227:121-132. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2018.09.008

  57. 114.

    Hauser, D. D. W., K. L. Laidre, H. L. Stern. 2018. Vulnerability of Arctic marine mammals to vessel traffic in the increasingly ice-free Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  doi/10.1073/pnas.1803543115

  58. 113.

    Durner, G. M., Laidre, K. L., and York, G .S., eds. 2018. Polar Bears: Proceedings of the 18th Working Meeting of the IUCN/SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group, 7–11 June 2016, Anchorage, Alaska. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. xxx + 207pp.

  59. 112.

    Lander, M., A. J. Westgate, B. C. Balmer, J. P. Reid, M. J. Murray, and K. L. Laidre. 2018. “Tagging and Tracking”, Chapter 32 in CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, 3rd Edition. F. M. D. Gulland, L. A. Dierauf, K. L. Whitman (Eds), pages 767-798.

  60. 111.

    Chambault, P., C. Moesgaard Albertsen, T. A. Patterson, R. G. Hansen, O. Tervo, K. L. Laidre & M. P. Heide-Jørgensen. 2018. Sea surface temperature predicts the movements of an Arctic cetacean: the bowhead whale. Scientific Reports 8:9658. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-27966

  61. 110.

    Laidre, K. L., A. Northey, and F. Ugarte. 2018. Traditional knowledge about polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in East Greenland: Changes in the catch and climate over two decades. Frontiers in Marine Science 5:135 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00135

  62. 109.

    Laidre K. L.,  H. Stern, E. W. Born, P. Heagerty, S, Atkinson, Ø. Wiig, N. J. Lunn, E. V. Regehr, R. McGovern, M. Dyck. 2018.  Changes in winter and spring resource selection by polar bears Ursus maritimus in Baffin Bay over two decades of sea-ice loss. Endangered Species Research 36:1-14. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00886

  63. 108.

    Sonne, C., E. Andersen‑Ranberg, E. L. Rajala, J. S. Agerholm, E. Bonefeld‑Jørgensen, J.‑P. Desforges, I. Eulaers, K. Gustavson, B. M. Jenssen, A.  Koch, A. Rosing‑Asvid, N.s Martin Schmidt, C. Grøndahl, J. B. Mosbacher, U. Siebert, M. Tryland, G. Mulvad, E. W. Born, K. Laidre, Ø.  Wiig, R. Dietz, U.  Magnusson. 2018. Prevalence of antibodies against Brucella spp. in West Greenland polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and East Greenland muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus). Polar Biology. In Press.

  64. 107.

    Laidre, K. L. and E. V. Regehr. 2018. Arctic marine mammals. In “Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals” (Bernd Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs, eds.), 3rd edition. Pp 34-40. Academic Press/Elsevier, San Diego, CA, USA.

  65. 106.

    Hauser, D.D.W., K.L. Laidre, H.L. Stern, R.S. Suydam, P.R. Richard. 2018. Indirect effects of sea ice loss on summer-fall habitat and behaviour for sympatric populations of an Arctic marine predator. Diversity and Distributions. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12722

  66. 105.

    Laidre K. L., E. W. Born, S. N. Atkinson, Ø. Wiig, L. W. Andersen, N. J. Lunn, M. Dyck, E. V. Regehr, R. McGovern and P. Heagerty. 2018.  Range contraction and increasing isolation of a polar bear subpopulation in an era of sea ice loss. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3809

  67. 104.

    Escajeda, E.*, K. L. Laidre, E. W. Born, Ø. Wiig, S. Atkinson, M. Dyck, S. H. Ferguson, N. J. Lunn. 2018. Identifying shifts in maternity den phenology and habitat characteristics of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) in Baffin Bay and Kane Basin. Polar Biology 41(1): 87-100. 10.1007/s00300-017-2172-6 (*graduate student author)

  68. 103.

    Silber, G. K., M. Lettrich, P. O. Thomas, J. Baker, M. Baumgartner, E. A. Becker, P. Boveng, D. M. Dick, J. Fiechter, J. Forcada, K. Forney, R. B. Griffis, J. Hare, A. J. Hobday, D. Howell, K. L. Laidre, N. Mantua, L. Quakenbush, J. A. Santora, K. Stafford, P. Spencer, C. Stock, W. Sydeman, K. Van Houtan, R. Waples. 2017. Projecting Marine Mammal Distribution in a Changing Climate. Frontiers in Marine Science https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00413

  69. 102.

    Trukhanova, I. S., A. I. Grachev, A. G. Somov, V. N. Burkanov, K. L. Laidre, P. L. Boveng. 2017. The commercial harvest of ice-associated seals in the sea of Okhotsk, 1972-1994. PLOS One 12(8): e0182725. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182725

  70. 101.

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  162. 9.

    Heide-Jørgensen M. P., K. L. Laidre, Ø. Wiig, M. V. Jensen, L. Dueck, L. Maiers, H. C. Schmidt, and R. C. Hobbs. 2003. From Greenland to Canada in two weeks: Movements of bowhead whales, Balaeana mysticetus, in Baffin Bay. Arctic 56(1): 21-31.

  163. 8.

    Laidre, K. L., R. J. Jameson, S. J. Jeffries, R. C. Hobbs, C. E. Bowlby, and G. R. VanBlaricom. 2002 Developing carrying capacity estimates for sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Washington State. Wildlife Society Bulletin 30(4): 1172-1181

  164. 7.

    Innes S., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, J. L. Laake, K. L. Laidre, H.J. Cleator, P. R. Richard and R. E. A. Stewart. 2002. Surveys of belugas and narwhals in the Canadian high Arctic in 1996. NAMMCO Scientific Publications 4: 147-190.

  165. 6.

    Laidre, K. L., M. P. Heide-Jørgensen, and R. Dietz. 2002. Diving behavior of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) at two coastal localities in the Canadian High Arctic. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 624-635.

  166. 5.

    Heide-Jørgensen M. P., R. Dietz, K. L. Laidre, P. Richard. 2002. Autumn movements, home range and winter density of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) from Tremblay Sound, Baffin Island. Polar Biology 25: 331-341.

  167. 4.

    Laidre, K. L., R. J. Jameson, and D. P. DeMaster. 2001. An estimation of carrying capacity for the sea otter along the California coast. Marine Mammal Science 17(2): 294-309.

  168. 3.

    Heide-Jørgensen M. P., L. Kleivane, N. Øien, K. L. Laidre and M. V. Jensen. 2001. A new technique for satellite tagging baleen whales: Tracking a blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) in the North Atlantic. Marine Mammal Science 17(4): 949-954.

  169. 2.

    Heide-Jørgensen M. P., E. Nordøy, N. Øien, L. P. Folkow, L. Kleivane, A. S. Blix, M. V. Jensen, and K. L. Laidre. 2001. Satellite tracking of minke whales (Balaenoptera aucorostrata) off the North Norwegian coast. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 3(2): 175-178.

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    Laidre, K. L., K.E.W. Shelden, D.J. Rugh, and B. A. Mahoney. 2000. Distribution of beluga whales and survey effort in the Gulf of Alaska. Marine Fisheries Review 62(3): 27-36.

Kristin Laidre

Senior Principal Scientist | Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington

klaidre@uw.edu | All photos © Kristin Laidre unless noted

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