Female Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) show greater partitioning of sea ice organic carbon than males: Evidence from ice algae trophic markers

• Chelsea W. Koch ,

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

  * E-mail: cwegner@umces.edu

  Affiliation University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0684-9657

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• Lee W. Cooper,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

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• Ryan J. Woodland,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3309-3413

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• Jacqueline M. Grebmeier,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

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• Karen E. Frey,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Raphaela Stimmelmayr,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States of America, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Cédric Magen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

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• Thomas A. Brown

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Scotland, United Kingdom

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