Population size and distribution of seabirds in the Cosmonaut Sea, Southern Ocean

• Main Authors: Zixuan, Lin, Meijun, Liu, Denghui, Yan, Kai, Gao, Xiangwan, Liu, Wenhong, Deng
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 2022
• Subjects: Fauna; Oceans; Arctic; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Cooperation Sea; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Antarctic Petrel; Antarctic prion; Antarctica; Arctic tern; Cosmonaut sea; Pachyptila desolata; Polar Science; Sterna paradisaea; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2795/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2795/1/A2203008.pdf

The Cosmonaut Sea is one of the less studied ecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere. Unlike other seas which were near to coastal regions, however, few studies exist on the top predators in this zone. From December 2019 to January 2020, a survey of seabirds was carried out on the board icebreaker R/V...