Polar Bear Health
Polar Bear Health Score Card: A Standardized Fatness Index
Hair Loss in Polar Bears
Publications:
- USGS Technical Announcement: Polar Bears in Alaska Observed with Patchy Hair Loss and other Skin Lesions (released 4/6/2012).
- Atwood, T., et al. 2013. Prevalence and spatio-temporal variation of an alopecia syndrome in polar bears of the Southern Beaufort Sea. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 51(1):48-59. doi: 10.7589/2013-11-301.
Links
More Polar Bear Studies
- Woshner, V.M. et al. 2001. Concentrations and interactions of selected essential and non-essential elements in ringed seals and polar bears of Arctic Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 37(4):711-721.
- Stimmelmayr, R., et al. 2015. Incidental findings in subsistence harvested Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears: Pathological conditions of the digestive system. Poster presented at the 21st Biennial Conference, San Francisco, California, 2015.
- Stimmelmayr, R., et al. 2016. Foraging behavior of SBS polar bears on the North Slope: Stomach content analysis in subsistence harvested polar bears and direct feeding observations. Poster presented at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, January 2016.
- Stimmelmayr, R., et al. 2017. Skull shape and morphometry of subfossil of Alaskan polar bear: Evidence for a new species? Poster presented at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, January 2017. Abstract.
- Horstmann, L., et al. 2017. Yeterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come – Compound-specific stable isotopes of polar bear collagen over 2000 years. Poster presented at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, January 2017. Abstract.
- Stimmelmayr, R., et al. 2017. Umbilical hernia in a free-ranging male polar bear. Poster presented at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, January 2018.
