• Documenting lemming population change in the Arctic: Can we detect trends? 

      Ehrich, Dorothée; Schmidt, Niels M.; Gauthier, Gilles; Alisauskas, Ray; Angerbjörn, Anders; Clark, Karin; Ecke, Frauke; Eide, Nina E.; Framstad, Erik; Frandsen, Jay; Franke, Alastair; Gilg, Olivier; Giroux, Marie-Andrée; Henttonen, Heikki; Hörnfeldt, Birger; Ims, Rolf A.; Kataev, Gennadiy D.; Kharitonov, Sergey P.; Killengreen, Siw T.; Krebs, Charles J.; Lanctot, Richard B.; Lecomte, Nicolas; Menyushina, Irina E.; Morris, Douglas W.; Morrisson, Guy; Oksanen, Lauri; Oksanen, Tarja; Olofsson, Johan; Pokrovsky, Ivan G.; Yu, Igor; Reid, Donald; Roth, James D.; Saalfeld, Sarah T.; Samelius, Gustaf; Sittler, Benoit; Sleptsov, Sergey M.; Smith, Paul A.; Sokolov, Alekstandr A.; Sokolova, Natalya A.; Soloviev, Mikhail Y.; Solovyeva, Diana V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-22)
      Lemmings are a key component of tundra food webs and changes in their dynamics can affect the whole ecosystem. We present a comprehensive overview of lemming monitoring and research activities, and assess recent trends in lemming abundance across the circumpolar Arctic. Since 2000, lemmings have been monitored at 49 sites of which 38 are still active. The sites were not evenly distributed ...
    • Stability of space use in svalbard coastal female polar bears: Intra-individual variability and influence of kinship 

      Brun, Clément; Blanchet, Marie-Anne; Ims, Rolf A.; Aars, Jon (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-28)
      Philopatry influences animal distribution and can lead to a kinship-based spatial structure, where proximity and relatedness are tightly linked. In the Barents Sea region, polar bears (Ursus maritimus) of the coastal ecotype remain year-round within the Svalbard archipelago. This coastal strategy is thought to be stable across years; however, little is known about the intra-individual variability ...