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Arctic Climate Change
- What's
Happening?
- Global
Warming
- Earth is so anthropogenically
altered ex: deforestation +
deseration
- Earth is so anthropogenically
altered ex: deforestation +
deseration
- Global
Warming
- Effects on Wildlife
- Physical change to the environment
- Introduction to new species
- Temporal effects on food webs
- Physical change to the environment
- Physical Changes to Environment
- Longer open water season
- Makes it unsuitable for
animals to have annual
movements
- Makes it unsuitable for
animals to have annual
movements
- Reduced permafrost/frozen ground
- Increased storm intensity
- rain-on-snow and freezing rain
- Longer open water season
- Effects on Polar Bears
- Less time on ice
- Less time to feed
- Fewer seals
- Starvation and lower reproductive sucess
- Less time to feed
- Increased cannibalism due to longer
open water season and poorer
condition
- Less time on ice
- Effects on Weather
- Strong wind storms
- Environmental abandonment
- Losses of eggs and chicks
- Environmental abandonment
- Late winter rain
- Flooding of dens
and decrease in
pup mortality
- Flooding of dens
and decrease in
pup mortality
- Strong wind storms
- Intro to new species
- Killer whale sightings
- bowhead whales
increasing because of
decrease in hunting
- Killer whale sightings
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