Increased sea ice concentration worsens fledging condition and juvenile survival in a pagophilic seabird, the snow petrel

• Published in: Biology Letters
• Main Authors: Sauser, Christophe, Delord, Karine, Barbraud, Christophe
• Other Authors: 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)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Arctic; Nivea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice; Snow Petrel
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01848749; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0140

International audience Polar sea ice is changing rapidly, threatening many taxa in the Arctic and the Antarctic. Little is known about the effects of sea ice on early life-history traits of sea ice specialist species, although juvenile stages are a critical component of population dynamics and recru...