Sentences with phrase «for bearded seal»

Up in Alaska, it's so hot now that the traditional hunt for bearded seal last summer was cut abnormally short due to melted ice, causing the Native community there to worry about losing the ability to continue with their traditional ways of acquiring food and practicing their culture.

Thus, it is «more likely than not» that the dynamics that are now reducing Arctic sea ice are also increasing the food supply, not just for bearded seals but for the whole food web.

But as seen in other memos and petitions, such as for the bearded seals, the CBD ultimately wants to use the ESA as a tool to regulate CO2.

Not exact matches

That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals.

The male bearded seal, for example, sounds like an alien spaceship landing.

The microphones record data at a sample rate of 8kHz, so the group listens up to 4kHz — for scale, the highest note on a normally tuned, standard piano is 4.186 kHz — to include signals produced by large whales like fins, humpbacks, bowheads and killer whales, as well as pinnipeds such as bearded seals and walrus.

But over the past decades, the melt season has grown longer and the average extent of Arctic sea ice has diminished, changing the game for many Arctic marine mammals — namely beluga, narwhal and bowhead whales; ringed, bearded, spotted, ribbon, harp and hooded seals; walruses; and polar bears.

Polar bears are the largest land carnivores in the world, but they are also marine mammals, meaning they spend the majority of their time on Artic sea ice hunting for ice - dependent ringed and bearded seals to snack on.

Lacking a more direct measure of the relationship between bearded seal vital rates and ice coverage, the BRT assumed that this preference relationship reflects the species requirements for sea - ice coverage.»

Although the Biological Review Team acknowledged «there is ample evidence that bearded seals have adapted successfully many times to both large and rapid ecological changes» they argued «history is not, on its own, an assurance that bearded seals can adapt to the changes projected for the foreseeable future.»

To make the case bearded seals were threatened, the BRT argued sea ice is a critical habitat required for birthing, nursing, molting and for resting while over prime foraging habitat.

The BRT concluded that «at least in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, bearded seals may not require the presence sea ice for a significant part of the year».

Listing the Bearded Seal as Threatened: A Disturbing Victory for Untestable Hypotheses and Flawed Models.

The Bering Sea is considered to be one of the world's most productive fisheries and its northern portions are the home of sea ducks, grey whales, bearded seals and walruses, but a 30 - year warming trend has been bad news for those animals that are adapted to a cold - water environment, causing them to migrate further north.