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List of works by Kit Kovacs

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The status of the world's land and marine mammals: diversity, threat, and knowledge

scientific article

The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates

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Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

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The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people.

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Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Arctic vertebrates

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Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity

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Arctic marine mammal population status, sea ice habitat loss, and conservation recommendations for the 21st century

scientific article published in June 2015

Microstructure and innervation of the mystacial vibrissal follicle-sinus complex in bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus (Pinnipedia: Phocidae).

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Feeding kinematics, suction and hydraulic jetting capabilities in bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus)

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Serosurvey for Toxoplasma gondii in arctic foxes and possible sources of infection in the high Arctic of Svalbard

scientific article published on 22 October 2007

Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories

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COMPARATIVE DIVING PATTERNS OF PINNIPEDS AND SEABIRDS

scientific article published in 2001

Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments

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Global threats to pinnipeds

Climate change impacts on wildlife in a High Arctic archipelago - Svalbard, Norway

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Congener-Specific Accumulation and Food Chain Transfer of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Two Arctic Food Chains

scientific article published on 01 March 2004

The slowest fish: Swim speed and tail-beat frequency of Greenland sharks

scholarly article by Yuuki Y. Watanabe et al published September 2012 in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Ringed seal post-moulting movement tactics and habitat selection

scientific article published on 8 November 2007

Stratification, composition, and function of marine mammal blubber: the ecology of fatty acids in marine mammals

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Effects of hydrographic variability on the spatial, seasonal and diel diving patterns of southern elephant seals in the eastern Weddell Sea.

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Climate change impacts on seals and whales in the North Atlantic Arctic and adjacent shelf seas

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The Argos-CLS Kalman Filter: Error Structures and State-Space Modelling Relative to Fastloc GPS Data

scientific article (publication date: 2015)

Impacts of changing sea-ice conditions on Arctic marine mammals

The diet of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard, Norway, inferred from scat analysis

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A simple route to single-nucleotide polymorphisms in a nonmodel species: identification and characterization of SNPs in the Artic ringed seal (Pusa hispida hispida).

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Predictions replaced by facts: a keystone species' behavioural responses to declining arctic sea-ice

scientific article published on November 1, 2015

Multiple mating between black bears revealed by DNA fingerprinting

article by Anita Schenk & Kit M. Kovacs published 1995 in Animal Behaviour

Levels and patterns of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) and their associations with thyroid hormones in hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) mother-pup pairs

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

The importance of tidewater glaciers for marine mammals and seabirds in Svalbard, Norway

scholarly article by Christian Lydersen published in January 2014

Characterization of oligosaccharides in milk of bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus).

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Diving behaviour of lactating harp seal, Phoca groenlandica, females from the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

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Climate change impacts on seals and whales in the North Atlantic Arctic and adjacent shelf seas

Cystophora cristata

scientific article published on 16 June 1986

Organophosphorous flame retardants in biota from Svalbard, Norway

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

The Laptev Sea walrusOdobenus rosmarus laptevi: an enigma revisited

scientific article published in 2009

Structural characterization of multibranched oligosaccharides from seal milk by a combination of off-line high-performance liquid chromatography-matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry and sequential exoglycosida

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Marine Mammals Exploring the Oceans Pole to Pole: A Review of the MEOP Consortium

scientific article published in 2017

Pre-partum diet of adult female bearded seals in years of contrasting ice conditions.

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Hormone, vitamin and contaminant status during the moulting/fasting period in ringed seals (Pusa [Phoca] hispida) from Svalbard

scientific article published on 2 October 2009

Vocalizations of male bearded seals, Erignathus barbatus: classification and geographical variation

Haul-Out Behaviour of the World's Northernmost Population of Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina) throughout the Year

scientific article published on January 22, 2014

Chemical characterization of the oligosaccharides in milk of high Arctic harbour seal (Phoca vitulina vitulina).

scientific article published in August 2003

An Arctic predator-prey system in flux: climate change impacts on coastal space use by polar bears and ringed seals

scientific article

Patterns in the vocalizations of male harbor seals

scientific article published in June 2003

Hemoglobin, pH and DPG/chloride shifting

scientific article published in December 2004

At the rainbow’s end: high productivity fueled by winter upwelling along an Arctic shelf

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Geographic distribution of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)

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Chemical characterization of the oligosaccharides in beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) and Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) milk

scientific article published in July 2002

The Barents and Chukchi Seas: Comparison of two Arctic shelf ecosystems

article published in 2013

Accumulation and lactational transfer of PCBs and pesticides in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) from Svalbard, Norway

scientific article published on 01 February 2004