Where the walruses wander ๐ŸŒŠ

In a report published in #PolarBiodiversity, historic and contemporary records using mainly GBIF-mediated data were gathered to investigate walrus vagrancy patterns. ๐Ÿ”Ž

By calculating daily movement rates and using a generalized linear model, ๐Ÿ“Š it was suggested that more vagrants are reaching temperate Europe due to increasingly unsuitable conditions and growing population sizes in their natural range.

๐Ÿ”—https://www.gbif.org/science-review

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