polar bear

New paper: How many cubs can a mum nurse? Maternal age and size influence litter size in polar bears

New paper on 'How many cubs can a mum nurse? Maternal age and size influence litter size in polar bears' https://t.co/Utu4VZ0Ms3 w/ #DorindaFolio (former Master student 👏🤩) and #SarahCubaynes in control #WomenInSTEM - PDF on request 😉 pic.

Modeling the demography of species providing extended parental care: A capturerecapture approach with a case study on Polar Bears

New preprint by awesome #SarahCubaynes "Modeling the demography of species providing extended parental care: A #capturerecapture approach with a case study on #Polar Bears" https://t.co/x1H0X7GyKn #demography #rstats #multistate #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience pic.

How many cubs can a mum raise? Maternal age and size influence litter size in polar bears

Check out our new #bioRxiv preprint on the influence of maternal traits on litter size in #polar #bears led by former Master student #DorindaFolio "How many cubs can a mum raise?

Visiting Tromso, polar bear demography

My post-doc Sarah Cubaynes and I went to visit our colleague Jon Aars in Tromso, Norway. We are working together on the demography of polar bears using an amazing dataset the Norwegian Polar Institute has been collecting for decades.