Emigration in emperor penguins: implications for interpretation of long-term studies

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: LaRue, Michelle A., Kooyman, Gerald, Lynch, Heather J., Fretwell, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dion; Dion Islands; Pointe-Géologie; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Emperor penguins
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/508081/; https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.00990

Site fidelity is an important evolutionary trait to understand, as misinterpretation of philopatric behavior could lead to confusion over the key drivers of population dynamics and the environmental or anthropogenic factors influencing populations. Our objective was to explore the hypothesis that em...