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As a warming climate changes Kodiak bears' diets, impacts could ripple through ecosystems

  • Written by William Deacy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oregon State University
imageA brown bear snags a sockeye salmon in Alaska. In warm years, red elderberries ripen early and Kodiak bears leave streams full of salmon to eat them.Jonathan Armstrong, CC BY-ND

After several years of studying brown bear ecology on Alaska’s Kodiak Island, I grew used to walking up streams into scenes of carnage. Where bears had killed and...

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