First recorded loss of an emperor penguin colony in the recent period of Antarctic regional warming: implications for other colonies.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Philip N Trathan, Peter T Fretwell, Bernard Stonehouse
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dion; Dion Islands; Emperor Island; Stonehouse; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014738; https://doaj.org/article/46e088cd506947d285dae8fa4e68a58d

In 1948, a small colony of emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri was discovered breeding on Emperor Island (67° 51' 52″ S, 68° 42' 20″ W), in the Dion Islands, close to the West Antarctic Peninsula (Stonehouse 1952). When discovered, the colony comprised approximately 150 breeding pairs; t...