Too much of a good thing: sea ice extent may have forced emperor penguins into refugia during the last glacial maximum

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Younger, Jane L., Clucas, Gemma V., Kooyman, Gerald, Wienecke, Barbara, Rogers, Alex D., Trathan, Philip N., Hart, Tom, Miller, Karen J.
• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Science, ANZ Trustees Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment, NERC, Penguin Lifelines, British Antarctic Survey Ecosystems Programme, Darwin Initiative
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Kya; Ross Sea; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12882; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fgcb.12882; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.12882

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