Sentences with phrase «ice ecoregion»

Note the thick ice in the CAA — what USGS experts call the «Archipelago» sea ice ecoregion (denoted by white in the map), indicating ice about 1 metre thick (2 - 3 feet)-- expected to remain at the height of summer in 2030.

Survival of Barents Sea polar bears during low - ice years does not require emigration to another sea ice ecoregion or even another subpopulation area.

After all, the computer models used to predict a dire future for polar bears combined the Chukchi Sea with the Southern Beaufort, as having similar ice habitats («ice ecoregions»).

Not exact matches

The islands bordering the Scotia Sea are rocky and partly covered in ice and snow year round; despite these harsh conditions, however, the islands do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands, and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea, as well as the remote South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano called Bouvet Island.

Today, the Barents Sea ecoregion is suffering the strongest sea ice retreat ever measured; and these changes are suspected to modify food access and thus diet of several species.

``... all GCMs project extensive winter sea ice through the end of the 21st century in most ecoregions (Durner et al. 2009).»