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Map of the Beaufort Sea, showing locations of ringed seals (n = 66) killed by polar bears and collected between 1974 and 2011. Ringed seal kills (n = 24) without known geographic coordinates are not shown. Light gray indicates area where environmental variables were extracted for the study
