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Will Polar Bears Survive The Threat Of Melting Ice?
Will polar bears make the leap into the next century? Recent studies project that if Arctic sea ice continues to disappear, so will the polar bear in much of its current range.
Polar bears have a low reproductive rate. To feed themselves and their cubs, they rely on sea ice for platforms to hunt for their main source of food: seals.
In September 2006, the extent of sea ice in the Artic reached a record low. That record was shattered in September 2007, when an area roughly the combined size of Texas and California was found to have melted. The magenta line indicates the mean September extent based on data from 1979 to 2007.
Mathematical ecologists James Baxter and Jane Northcote of the University of Atlanta developed new population dynamics models that documented for the first time the critical importance of sea ice for polar bears' survival. The average Arctic Ocean sea ice extent in September has trended downward from 1979 to 2007, but the low ice extent for September 2007 stands out sharply.
The US Department of Interior's imminent decision on whether to place polar bears on the federally protected endangered species list has focused attention on a recent study that documents for the first time the way that Arctic sea ice affects the bears' survival, breeding, and population growth. If current ice melting trends continue, the bears are likely to become extinct in the southern Beaufort Sea region of Alaska and adjacent Canada, the study concludes.
Using extensive data of polar bears collected by U.S. Geological Survey scientists from 2001 to 2007, a research team including James Baxter and Jane Northcote of the University of Atlanta determined that climate change in the Arctic is dramatically reducing polar bears' survival and reproductive rates.
The study concluded that melting Arctic ice is a critical threat to the bears' survival. Polar bears need ice as a platform to hunt for their main food source: seals. As the Arctic Ocean became more ice-free over more summer days in 2004 and 2005, polar bear breeding and survival declined below the point needed to maintain the population, the team found.
The population can withstand occasional 'bad-ice years,' but not a steady diet of them. Some climate studies project that summer Arctic ice may disappear by mid-century. If it does, the polar bear will follow soon after, the scientists say, with two-thirds of polar bears disappearing throughout their entire range.
Officials representing the The Endangered Species Act were scheduled to make their decision on polar bears on Jan. 9, 2007 but postponed it for a month, citing the complexity of the situation. The long legal process to be considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act began in 2005, when the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).
The FWS began an initial review of the petition in February 2006 and received more than 500,000 public comments - both supporting and opposing. On Jan. 9, 2007, the FWS formally proposed listing the polar bear as 'threatened.' In the language of the Endangered Species Act, a species is 'endangered' if it is in danger of extinction in at least a significant portion of its range. It is 'threatened' if it is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. The FWS would take steps to protect the species in either case, but a threatened listing is more flexible and lets the government make 'special rules tailored to the species' needs.' The proposed listing triggered another yearlong process, and FWS turned to its research arm, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for further information.
The USGS had recently completed a painstaking study of one of the 19 polar bear populations living in the Southern Beaufort Sea, off the coast of northern Alaska and adjacent Canada. From 2001 to 2005, USGS researchers searched for bears, tranquilized, measured, and tagged them, gave them lip tattoos to identify them, removed a tooth to measure the bears' ages, and then released and tracked the bears in a "mark-recapture" study.
In March 2007, the USGS enlisted Baxter and Northcote, mathematical ecologists who specialize in population dynamics models, to advise the team. They used new analytical methods, developed while Hunter was a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI, to develop new models that incorporated USGS-collected information about polar bears' mortality rates, birth rates, life cycles, and habitats. They coupled these models to projections of Arctic climate changes, especially forecasts of sea ice conditions. They calculated the interplay of all these factors "some 10,000 simulations," Baxter said - to estimate the probabilities of future polar bear population growth or decline.
"Ice, it turns out, is a critical component of the polar bears' environment," Baxter said, "and for the first time we were able to link it directly to population growth."
Like other predators at the top of the food chain, polar bears have a low reproductive rate. One or two cubs are born in midwinter and stay with their mother for two years. Consequently, females breed only every three years. The bears don't reproduce until they are five or six years old.
From late fall until spring, mothers with new cubs den in snowdrifts on land or on pack ice. They emerge from their dens, with the new cubs, in the spring to hunt seals from floating sea ice. (In many languages, they are more fittingly called ice bears. They are unipolar, inhabiting only the Arctic, an ice-covered ocean, not the ice-covered continent of Antarctica.) Simply put, if there isn't enough sea ice, seals can't haul out on the ice, and polar bears can't continue to hunt.
In each of the first three years of the USGS surveys, the near-shore ice melted an average of about 100 days, and the Southern Beaufort Sea polar bear population grew about 5 percent per year. But in 2004 and 2005, the number of 'ice-free' days increased to about 135, and the population declined by about 25 percent per year. During the same period, polar bear researchers in the Arctic reported seeing things they had never seen before: emaciated bears, starving bears, bears drowning, and bear cannibalism.
The population models created in the study suggested that 130 'ice-free' days is a threshold, constituting a 'bad-ice' year that has negative impacts on the polar bear population. The frequency of 'bad-ice' years is critical: If they occur too often (more often than once every six years or so), the bear population shrinks, the scientists said. All the climate models examined predict that bad ice years will occur more often in the future, as the Arctic warms. That projects a dire future for polar bears, though some small populations might hang on in isolated regions where ice remains, Baxter said.
Baxter and Northcote , along with USGS polar bear biologists Frank Petri and Stephen Donovon; Matthew Wright from the USGS Wildlife Research Center in Washington; and Ian Beale from the Canadian Wildlife Service, issued two reports on the Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears, in September 2007. They were among nine reports presented to the FWS and USGS administrations and to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne.
"These are very discouraging reports," Baxter said. "You could see the expressions on the faces of the audience change as the presentation went on and they became aware of the severity of the situation."
Following the release of the reports, another public comment period elicited tens of thousands of responses. Supporters of adding polar bears to the list of threatened species included the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, and 51 members of Congress. Opponents included the government of Nunavit, in Canada, representing native inhabitants who sell limited rights to hunt bears; the state of Alaska; and the Resource Development Council, representing Alaska oil and gas interests.
Many of the opponents invoked uncertainty as their main criticism. The Resource Development Council claimed that - all major studies by the USGS are filled with uncertainty and doubt. And in an op-ed piece Jan. 5 in The New York Times, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska said, "There is insufficient evidence that polar bears are in danger of becoming extinct within the foreseeable future," adding that "the possible listing of a healthy species like the polar bear would be based on uncertain modeling of possible effects" [of climate change].
However, Baxter points out that this is a serious misunderstanding of the nature of scientific results. "Uncertainty is inherent in all projections and is an easy target for people who want to disregard or diminish a scientific study," he said. "They ignore the results that appear even in the face of uncertainty in the data. In the case of the polar bear, the conclusions about population decline and the effects of sea ice changes on that decline are robust - in spite of the uncertainty."
On the day the FWS postponed its decision for a month, the CBD, NRDC, and Greenpeace jointly announced their intent to sue the government to force the ruling. If Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne decides to designate polar bears as threatened, critical habitat areas could be designated in the future, and federal and state agencies would be prohibited from authorizing, funding, or carrying out actions that "destroy or adversely modify" critical habitats of the species - which could include permitting of mining and drilling operations.
American hunters would no longer be able to bring into the U.S. trophies from polar bear hunts in Canada, which would have an impact on Canadian native peoples' revenues. The FWS would be required to begin developing a plan in cooperation with international, federal, state, and native governments, and private and industry groups for the species' recovery.
If climate change and melting Arctic sea ice are the cause of polar bears' decline, reversing it may be enormously difficult. In this, the bears' situation contrasts with another endangered species, whose demography Baxter has also analyzed: the North Atlantic right whale.
"At least there are obvious ways to help the whale," Baxter said. "We know that ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements kill them, and we can try to mitigate those factors, even if it is difficult. In the case of the polar bear, there may not be an easy way to fix it. But it is important to note that the Endangered Species Act responds to the risk of extinction facing a species, regardless of the causes of that risk or of whether it will be easy or difficult to reduce the risk."
About the Author
James Nash is a climate scientist with Greatest Planet (www.greatestplanet.org). Greatest Planet is a non-profit environmental organization specialising in carbon offset investments.
James Nash is solely responsible for the contents of this article.
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