Massive decline of the world’s largest king penguin colony at Ile aux Cochons, Crozet

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Weimerskirch, Henri, Le Bouard, Fabrice, Ryan, Peter G., Bost, C.A.
• 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), Réserve Naturelle Nationale des Terres Australes Françaises, TAAF, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town-DST-NRF Centre of Excellence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Aptenodytes patagonicus; satellite image; remote sensing; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Ile aux Cochons; Indian; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Science; King Penguins
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01852323; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102018000226

International audience King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus Miller) are major consumers in the Southern Ocean. The colony at Ile aux Cochons, Iles Crozet, in the southern Indian Ocean was known in the 1980s as the largest king penguin colony and the second largest penguin colony in the world. Howe...