Destruction of antarctic terrestrial ecosystems by a rapidly increasing fur seal population

• Published in: Biological Conservation
• Main Author: Smith, Ronald I.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1988
• Subjects: Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Signy Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521810/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0006-3207(88)90052-3

The terrestrial environment of Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic, is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible change caused by a natural biological agent. During the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in the number of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella comin...