Climate change and the increasing impact of polar bears on bird populations
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1 Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, 2 FRAM—High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway, 3 Arctic Ecology Department, FRAM—High North Research Centre for Climate and the Environment, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Tromsø, Norway, 4 Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, 5 Department of Marine Ecology, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Den Burg, Netherlands, 6 Institute of Animal Ecology and Nature Education, Gonterskirchen, Germany, 7 Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique, Francheville, France, 8 Chair for Landscape Management, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 9 Department of Vertebrate Ecology and Zoology, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, 10 Polish Polar Station Hornsund, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 11 Branta Research, Ezinge, Netherlands, 12 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
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