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ICE SEAL PUBLICATIONS

 

 

 

Boveng PL, Bengtson JL, Buckley TW, Cameron MF, Dahle SP, Kelly BP, Megrey BA, Overland JE, andWilliamson NJ (2009) Status review of the spotted seal (Phoca largha). U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-200, 153 p.

Boveng PL, Bengtson JL, Buckley TW, Cameron MF, Dahle SP, Megrey BA, Overland JE, and Williamson NJ (2008) Status review of the ribbon seal (Histriophoca fasciata). U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFSAFSC-191. 115 p.

Cameron MF, Frost KJ, Ver Hoef JM, Breed GA, Whiting AV, Goodwin J, and Boveng PL (2018) Habitat selection and seasonal movements of young bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) in the Bering Sea. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0192743. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192743

Cameron MF, Bengtson JL, Boveng PL, Jansen JK, Kelly BP, Dahle SP, Logerwell EA, Overland JE, Sabine CL, Waring GT, and Wilder JM (2010) Status review of the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus). U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-211, 246 p.

Citta J, Lowry L, Quakenbush L, Kelly B, Fischbach A, London J, Jay C, Frost K, O’Corry Crowe G, Crawford J, Boveng P, Cameron M, Von Duyke A, Nelson M, Harwood L, Richard P, Suydam R, Heide-Jorgensen MP, Hobbs R, Litovka D, Whiting A, Marcoux M, Kennedy A, George J, Orr J, Gray T (2018) A multi-species synthesis of satellite telemetry data in the Pacific Arctic (1987–2015): Overlap of marine mammal distributions and core use areas. Deep Sea Research II 152:132-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.02.006

Crain DD, Karpovich SA, Quakenbush L, Polasek L (2021) Using claws to compare reproduction, stress and diet of female bearded and ringed seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas, Alaska, between 1953–1968 and 1998–2014. Conservation Physiology 9(1):coaa115.  https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaa115

Crawford JA, Frost KJ, Quakenbush LT, and Whiting A (2018) Seasonal and diel differences in dive and haul-out behavior of adult and subadult ringed seals (Pusa hispida) in the Bering and Chukchi seas. Polar Biology 41:65–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s0030 0-018-2399-x

 

Crawford JA, Quakenbush LT, and Citta JJ (2015) A comparison of ringed and bearded seal diet, condition and productivity between historical (1975–1984) and recent (2003–2012) periods in the Alaskan Bering and Chukchi seas. Progress in Oceanography 136:133–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.05.011

Crawford JA, Frost KJ, Quakenbush LT, and Whiting A (2012) Different habitat use strategies by juvenile and adult ringed seals (Phoca hispida) in the Bering and Chukchi seas. Polar Biology 35:241–255. https://doi.org/10.1007/s0030 0-011-1067-1

Davidson S, et al. 2020.  New ecological insights from the Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA).  Science.  Science 370(6517):712-715. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb7080

Goertz CEC, Reichmuth C, Thometz NM, Ziel H, and Boveng P (2019) Comparative Health Assessments of Alaskan Ice Seals. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 6(4):1-15.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2019.00004

Gryba R, Huntington HP, Von Duyke AL, Adams B, Frantz B, Gatten J, Harcharek Q, Olemaun H, Sarren R, Skin J, Henry G, and Auger-Méthé M (2021) Indigenous Knowledge of bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), ringed seal (Pusa hispida), and spotted seal (Phoca largha) behaviour and habitat use near Utqiaġvik, Alaska, USA. Arctic Science. 1-27.  https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0052

Gryba R, Wiese FK, Kelly BP, Von Duyke AL, Pickart RS, and Stockwell DA (2019) Inferring foraging locations and water masses preferred by spotted (Phoca largha) and bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus). Marine Ecology Progress Series 631:209-224. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13145

Harwood LA, Smith TG, Auld JC, Melling H, and Yurkowski DJ (2015). Seasonal movements and diving of ringed seals, Pusa hispida, in the western Canadian Arctic, 199–2001 and 2010–11. Arctic 68:193–209. https://doi.org/10.14430 /arcti c4479

Harwood LA, Smith TG, and Auld JC (2012) Fall migration of ringed seals (Phoca hispida) through the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, 2001–02. Arctic 65:35–44. https://doi.org/10.14430 /arctic4163

Huntington HP, Quakenbush LT, and Nelson, M (2016) Effects of changing sea-ice on marine mammals and subsistence hunters in northern Alaska from traditional knowledge interviews. Biology Letters 12:20160198. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0198

Kelly BP, Badajos OH, Kunnasranta M, Moran JR, Martinez-Bakker M, Wartzok D, and Boveng P (2010) Seasonal home ranges and fidelity to breeding sites among ringed seals. Polar Biology 33(8):1095–1109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s0030 0-010-0796-x

Kelly BP, Bengtson JL, Boveng PL, Cameron MF, Dahle SP, Jansen JK, Logerwell EA, Overland JE, Sabine CL, Waring GT, and Wilder JM (2010) Status review of the ringed seal (Phoca hispida). U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-212, 250 p.

McLaren, I. A. (1958). The biology of the ringed seal (Phoca hispida Schreber) in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 118, 1–97.  pdf

Nelson MA, Quakenbush LT, Taras BD, and Ice Seal Committee (2019) Subsistence harvest of ringed, bearded, spotted, and ribbon seals in Alaska is sustainable.  Endangered Species Research 40:1-16.

https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00973

Olnes J, Quakenbush L, Nelson M, Simon A, Burns J, and the Ice Seal Committee (2022) Trends in subsistence harvests of ice seals in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region, Alaska, 1962-2018. Arctic 75(4):449-461. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic76302

Olnes J, Crawford J, Citta JJ, Druckenmiller ML, Von Duyke AL, and Quakenbush L (2020) Movement, diving, and haul-out behaviors of juvenile bearded seals in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas, 2014–2018. Polar Biology 43:1307–1320. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02710-6

Olnes J, Breed G, Druckenmiller M, Citta JJ, Crawford JA, Von Duyke AL, Frost KJ, and Quakenbush L. (2020) Juvenile bearded seal response to a decade of sea ice change in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas. Marine Ecology Progress Series.  Marine Ecology Progress Series. 10.3354/meps13609

Quakenbush L and Citta J (2008) Biology of the ribbon seal in Alaska. Report to National Marine Fisheries Service. 45 p. Arctic Marine Mammal Program, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK.

Rode KD, Regehr EV, Bromaghin JF, Wilson RR, St. Martin M, Crawford JA, and Quakenbush LT (2021) Seal body condition and atmospheric circulation patterns influence polar bear body condition, recruitment, and feeding ecology in the Chukchi Sea.  Global Change Biology 27(12): 2684-2701. 

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15572

Rosing-Asvid A, Löytynoja A, Momigliano P, Hansen RG, Scharff-Olsen CH, Valtonen M, Kammonen J, Dietz R, Rigét FF, Ferguson SH, Lydersen C, Kovacs KM, Holland DM, Jernvall J, Auvinen P, and Tange Olsen M (2023) An evolutionarily distinct ringed seal in the Ilulissat Icefjord. Molecular Ecology, 32(22), 5932–5943. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17163

Sills JM and Reichmuth C (2022) Vocal behavior in spotted seals (Phoca largha) and implications for passive acoustic monitoring. Frontiers in Remote Sensing 3:862435. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.862435

Sills JM, Reichmuth C, Southall B, Whiting A, and Goodwin J (2020) Auditory biology of bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus) Polar Biology 43:681–1691.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02736-w

Sills JM, Southall BL, and Reichmuth C (2015) Amphibious hearing in ringed seals (Pusa hispida): underwater audiograms, aerial audiograms and critical ratio measurements.  Journal of Experimental biology 218:2250-2059.  https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.120972

Sills JM, Southall BL, and Reichmuth (2014) Amphibious hearing in spotted seals (Phoca largha): underwater audiograms, aerial audiograms and critical ratio measurements.  Journal of Experimental Biology 217:726-734. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.097469

Thometz NM, Rosen DA, Hermann-Sorensen H, Meranda M, Pardini M, and Reichmuth C (2023). Maintaining control: metabolism of molting Arctic seals in water and when hauled out. Journal of Experimental Biology 226(1): p.jeb244862. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244862

Thometz NM, Hermann-Sorensen H, Russell B, Rosen DAS, and Reichmuth C (2021) Molting strategies of Arctic seals drive annual patterns in metabolism. Conservation Physiology 9(1) coaa112. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaa112

Von Duyke AL, Douglas DC, Herreman JK, and Crawford JA  (2020)  Ringed seal (Pusa hispida) seasonal movements, diving, and haul-out behavior in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering Seas (2011–2017).  Ecology and Evolution 10:5595-5619. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6302

Walden HS, Bryan AL, McIntosh A, Tuomi P, Hoover-Miller Anne, Stimmelmayr R, and Quakenbush L (2020) Helminth fauna of ice seals in the Alaskan Bering and Chukchi Seas, 2006-15. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 56(4):863-872.  https://doi.org/10.7589/2019-09-228

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