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About the Authors:
Elizabeth Peacock
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America, Department of Environment, Government of Nunavut, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
Sarah A. Sonsthagen
Affiliation: Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America
Martyn E. Obbard
Affiliation: Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Andrei Boltunov
Affiliation: All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection, Moscow, Russian Federation
Eric V. Regehr
Affiliation: US Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America
Nikita Ovsyanikov
Affiliation: Wrangel Island State Nature Reserve, Moscow, Russian Federation
Jon Aars
Affiliation: Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway
Stephen N. Atkinson
Affiliation: Department of Environment, Government of Nunavut, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada
George K. Sage
Affiliation: Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America
Andrew G. Hope
Affiliation: Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America
Eve Zeyl
Affiliation: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Lutz Bachmann
Affiliation: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Dorothee Ehrich
Affiliation: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Kim T. Scribner
Affiliation: Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America
Steven C. Amstrup
Affiliation: Polar Bears International, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
Stanislav Belikov
Affiliation: All-Russian Research Institute for Nature Protection, Moscow, Russian Federation
Erik W. Born
Affiliation: Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Copenhagen, Denmark
Andrew E. Derocher
Affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ian Stirling
Affiliation: Science & Technology Branch, Environment Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Mitchell K. Taylor
Affiliation: Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Øystein Wiig
Affiliation: Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
David Paetkau
Affiliation: Wildlife Genetics International, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Sandra L. Talbot
Affiliation: Alaska Science Center, US Geological Survey, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America
Introduction
The distribution and viability of animal populations are dependent on the quantity, quality and connectivity of habitat. As habitat undergoes change, populations expand or become increasingly isolated. Because habitat change due to climate warming has been and is predicted to be most dramatic at the poles and especially for sea-ice habitat [1], Arctic species are...