First Recorded Loss of an Emperor Penguin Colony in the Recent Period of Antarctic Regional Warming: Implications for Other Colonies

• Main Authors: Philip N. Trathan, Peter T. Fretwell, Bernard Stonehouse
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dion; Dion Islands; Emperor Island; Stonehouse; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.293.8311

In 1948, a small colony of emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri was discovered breeding on Emperor Island (67u 519 520 S, 68u 429 200 W), in the Dion Islands, close to the West Antarctic Peninsula (Stonehouse 1952). When discovered, the colony comprised approximately 150 breeding pairs; these numbe...