Population Size and Decadal Trends of Three Penguin Species Nesting at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Michael J Dunn, Jennifer A Jackson, Stacey Adlard, Amanda S Lynnes, Dirk R Briggs, Derren Fox, Claire M Waluda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Chinstrap penguin; Gentoo penguin; Pygoscelis adeliae; Pygoscelis antarctica; Pygoscelis papua
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164025; https://doaj.org/article/590f7665dbc74ee2b304f9c89cddc62d

We report long-term changes in population size of three species of sympatrically breeding pygoscelid penguins: Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) and gentoo (Pygoscelis papua ellsworthii) over a 38 year period at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, based on annual counts...