The information-rich vessel movement data provided by the Automatic Identification System
(AIS) has gained much popularity over the past decade, during which the employment of …

Arctic marine mammals (AMMs) are icons of climate change, largely because of their close
association with sea ice. However, neither a circumpolar assessment of AMM status nor a …

Current climate trends resulting in rapid declines in sea ice and increasing water
temperatures are likely to expand the northern geographic range and duration of favorable …

No global synthesis of the status of baleen whales has been published since the 2008 IUCN
Red List assessments. Many populations remain at low numbers from historical commercial …

As the Arctic warms and sea ice decreases, increased ship** will lead to higher ambient
noise levels in the Arctic Ocean. Arctic marine mammals are vulnerable to increased noise …

Commercial vessel traffic through the Bering Strait is increasing. This region has high
biological and cultural significance, to which commercial ship** poses several risks. For …

The Arctic is one of the fastest-changing parts of the planet. Global climate change is already
having major impacts on Arctic ecosystems. Increasing temperatures and reductions in sea …

This paper compares and contrasts the ecosystems of the Barents and Chukchi Seas.
Despite their similarity in a number of features, the Barents Sea supports a vast biomass of …

The Arctic is among the most rapidly-changing regions on Earth. Diminishing levels of sea-
ice has increased opportunities for maritime activities in historically inaccessible areas such …

Borealization is a type of community reorganization where Arctic specialists are replaced by
species with more boreal distributions in response to climatic warming. The process of …