Identification of marine important bird and biodiversity areas for penguins around the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Dias, Maria P., Carneiro, Ana Paula Bertoldi, Warwick-Evans, Victoria, Harris, Colin, Lorenz, Katharina, Lascelles, Ben, Clewlow, Harriet L., Dunn, Michael J., Hinke, Jefferson T., Kim, Jeong-Hoon, Kokubun, Nobuo, Manco, Fabrizio, Ratcliffe, Norman, Santos, Mercedes, Takahashi, Akinori, Trivelpiece, Wayne, Trathan, Philip N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521311/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521311/1/Dias_et_al-2018-Ecology_and_Evolution.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4519

Aim: To provide a method of analyzing penguin tracking data to identify priority at-sea areas for seabird conservation (marine IBAs), based on pre-existing approaches for flying seabirds but revised according to the specific ecology of Pygoscelis penguin species. Location: Waters around the Antarcti...