King penguin population on Macquarie Island recovers ancient DNA diversity after heavy exploitation in historic times

• Published in: Biology Letters
• Main Authors: Heupink, Tim, van den Hoff, John, Lambert, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society Publishing 2012
• Subjects: Population; Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics; Griffith; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/48779; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0053

Historically, king penguin populations on Macquarie Island have suffered greatly from human exploitation. Two large colonies on the island were drastically reduced to a single small colony as a result of harvesting for the blubber oil industry. However, recent conservation efforts have resulted in t...