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: Trathan, Philip N., Fretwell, Peter T., Stonehouse, Bernard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library Science 2011
• Subjects: Meteorology and Climatology; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Stonehouse; Dion; Emperor Island; Dion Islands; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14047/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14047/1/journal.pone.0014738.pdf; http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014738

In 1948, a small colony of emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri was discovered breeding on Emperor Island (67 degrees 51' 52 '' S, 68 degrees 42' 20 '' W), in the Dion Islands, close to the West Antarctic Peninsula (Stonehouse 1952). When discovered, the colony compris...