Figure 9.3 Identification of ecologically valuable and sensitive sea areas in the Greenland part of the BBDS region (from Christensen et al., 2012). The color of the area labels indicates priority: Priority 1 in red, Priority 2 in orange, and Priority 3 in green. Especially important “core areas” are marked by red shading. In area V7, the critical resources (whelping seals and foraging seabirds and whales) are associated with the marginal ice zone, which is highly dynamic within a single year and also between years – increasingly so due to climate change impacts. Accordingly, the associated core areas are not mapped here, as they must be equally dynamic.

Publication: Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic: Perspectives from the Baffin Bay/Davis Strait Region

Page number: 253

Type: Map

Caption: Figure 9.3 Identification of ecologically valuable and sensitive sea areas in the Greenland part of the BBDS region (from Christensen et al., 2012). The color of the area labels indicates priority: Priority 1 in red, Priority 2 in orange, and Priority 3 in green. Especially important “core areas” are marked by red shading. In area V7, the critical resources (whelping seals and foraging seabirds and whales) are associated with the marginal ice zone, which is highly dynamic within a single year and also between years – increasingly so due to climate change impacts. Accordingly, the associated core areas are not mapped here, as they must be equally dynamic.

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