Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica
International audience Background: Marine predators are ecosystem sentinels because their foraging behaviour and reproductive successreflect the variability occurring in the lower trophic levels of the ecosystem. In an era of environmental change,monitoring top predators species can provide valuable...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01207177v1 2023-05-15T14:00:34+02:00 Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica Widmann, Michel Kato, Akiko Raymond, Ben Angelier, Frédéric Arthur, Benjamin Chastel, Olivier Pellé, Marie Raclot, Thierry Ropert‐Coudert, Yan Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) 2015 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01207177 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0052-7 en eng HAL CCSD BioMed Central info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1186/s40462-015-0052-7 hal-01207177 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01207177 doi:10.1186/s40462-015-0052-7 EISSN: 2051-3933 Movement Ecology https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01207177 Movement Ecology, BioMed Central, 2015, 3, pp.30-40. ⟨10.1186/s40462-015-0052-7⟩ Polynya Sea-ice distribution Foraging behaviour Bio-logging Marine Protected Areas Adélie penguin Adélie Land [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2015 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0052-7 2021-10-24T11:29:43Z International audience Background: Marine predators are ecosystem sentinels because their foraging behaviour and reproductive successreflect the variability occurring in the lower trophic levels of the ecosystem. In an era of environmental change,monitoring top predators species can provide valuable insights into the zones of ecological importance that needto be protected. In this context, we monitored the Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) as a bio-indicator nearDumont d’Urville, an area of the East Antarctic sector currently being considered for the establishment of a MarineProtected Area (MPA), using GPS-based tracking tags during the 2012/13 austral summer breeding season.Results: The habitat use and foraging areas of the penguins differed by breeding stage and sex and were stronglyassociated with patterns in bathymetry and sea-ice distribution. The first trips, undertaken during the incubationphase, were longer than those during the guard phase and were associated with the northern limit of the sea-iceextent. During the guard phase, birds strongly depended on access to a polynya, a key feature in Antarctic marineecosystem, in the vicinity of the colony. The opening of the ice-free area was synchronous with the hatching ofchicks. Moreover, a sex-specific use of foraging habitat observed only after hatching suggests sex-specificdifferences in the diet in response to intra-specific competition.Conclusions: Sea-ice features that could be affected by the climate change were important factors for the use offoraging habitat by the Adélie penguins. The extent of the foraging area observed in this study is congruent withthe area of the proposed MPA. However, both penguin behavior and their environment should be monitoredcarefully. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Pygoscelis adeliae Sea ice Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Antarctic East Antarctica Austral Movement Ecology 3 1 |
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Polynya Sea-ice distribution Foraging behaviour Bio-logging Marine Protected Areas Adélie penguin Adélie Land [SDE]Environmental Sciences |
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Polynya Sea-ice distribution Foraging behaviour Bio-logging Marine Protected Areas Adélie penguin Adélie Land [SDE]Environmental Sciences Widmann, Michel Kato, Akiko Raymond, Ben Angelier, Frédéric Arthur, Benjamin Chastel, Olivier Pellé, Marie Raclot, Thierry Ropert‐Coudert, Yan Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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Polynya Sea-ice distribution Foraging behaviour Bio-logging Marine Protected Areas Adélie penguin Adélie Land [SDE]Environmental Sciences |
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International audience Background: Marine predators are ecosystem sentinels because their foraging behaviour and reproductive successreflect the variability occurring in the lower trophic levels of the ecosystem. In an era of environmental change,monitoring top predators species can provide valuable insights into the zones of ecological importance that needto be protected. In this context, we monitored the Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) as a bio-indicator nearDumont d’Urville, an area of the East Antarctic sector currently being considered for the establishment of a MarineProtected Area (MPA), using GPS-based tracking tags during the 2012/13 austral summer breeding season.Results: The habitat use and foraging areas of the penguins differed by breeding stage and sex and were stronglyassociated with patterns in bathymetry and sea-ice distribution. The first trips, undertaken during the incubationphase, were longer than those during the guard phase and were associated with the northern limit of the sea-iceextent. During the guard phase, birds strongly depended on access to a polynya, a key feature in Antarctic marineecosystem, in the vicinity of the colony. The opening of the ice-free area was synchronous with the hatching ofchicks. Moreover, a sex-specific use of foraging habitat observed only after hatching suggests sex-specificdifferences in the diet in response to intra-specific competition.Conclusions: Sea-ice features that could be affected by the climate change were important factors for the use offoraging habitat by the Adélie penguins. The extent of the foraging area observed in this study is congruent withthe area of the proposed MPA. However, both penguin behavior and their environment should be monitoredcarefully. |
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Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC) Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC) Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) |
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Widmann, Michel Kato, Akiko Raymond, Ben Angelier, Frédéric Arthur, Benjamin Chastel, Olivier Pellé, Marie Raclot, Thierry Ropert‐Coudert, Yan |
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Widmann, Michel Kato, Akiko Raymond, Ben Angelier, Frédéric Arthur, Benjamin Chastel, Olivier Pellé, Marie Raclot, Thierry Ropert‐Coudert, Yan |
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Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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Habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of Adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in Adélie Land, East Antarctica |
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habitat use and sex-specific foraging behaviour of adélie penguins throughout the breeding season in adélie land, east antarctica |
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Antarctic East Antarctica Austral |
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Antarctic East Antarctica Austral |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Pygoscelis adeliae Sea ice |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Pygoscelis adeliae Sea ice |
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EISSN: 2051-3933 Movement Ecology https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01207177 Movement Ecology, BioMed Central, 2015, 3, pp.30-40. ⟨10.1186/s40462-015-0052-7⟩ |
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