About the Authors

Tom S. Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tom_smith@byu.edu

Affiliation Wildlife and Wildlands Conservation Program, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States of America

Steven C. Amstrup

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven C. Amstrup, B. J. Kirschhoffer, Geoffrey York

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Polar Bears International, Bozeman, MT, United States of America, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States of America

B. J. Kirschhoffer

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven C. Amstrup, B. J. Kirschhoffer, Geoffrey York

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Polar Bears International, Bozeman, MT, United States of America

Geoffrey York

Contributed equally to this work with: Steven C. Amstrup, B. J. Kirschhoffer, Geoffrey York

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Polar Bears International, Bozeman, MT, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.