ABOVE: This female Peregrine was tracked from its breeding site on the Popigai River in Arctic Russia to its wintering range on the Baluchestan coast of the Arabian Sea in Pakistan over three successive seasons.
ANDREW DIXON
The Arctic is warming faster than any region of Earth, with potentially serious consequences for the animals scattered across its 5.5 million square miles of ice, open sea, boreal forest, and naked tundra. To make sense of how the region is shifting and what that will mean for wildlife, scientists are taking a cue from the caribou, banding together and pooling resources—in this case, their animal tracking research efforts. The result is a new ecological tool for studying climate change at the planet’s northern pole.
The Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA), detailed in a report published today (November 5) in Science, contains more than 200 studies contributed by polar research groups and scientists from ...
