Figure 1 from Matishov et al. 2014, showing the study region and tracks of ice-breakers used to count bears. Original caption: “Position of ice-breaker routes providing the count of polar bears in the Kara and Barents seas from 1997 until 2013 for 32 counted routes. The dashed line indicates the approximate boundaries of habitat of the subpopulation of polar bears of the Kara Sea [4].”
Kara Sea polar bear estimate from ship counts_Fig 1
Published December 29, 2014 at 594 × 480 in Kara Sea: first-ever polar bear count suggests about 3,200 bears live there
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