Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Forcada, Jaume, Hoffman, Joseph I., Gimenez, Olivier, Staniland, Iain J., Bucktrout, Pete, Wood, Andrew G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; Antarctic Krill
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535822/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/535822/1/Global%20Change%20Biology%20-%202023%20-%20Forcada%20-%20Ninety%20years%20of%20change%20%20from%20commercial%20extinction%20to%20recovery%20%20range%20expansion.pdf; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16947

With environmental change, understanding how species recover from overharvesting and maintain viable populations is central to ecosystem restoration. Here, we reconstruct 90 years of recovery trajectory of the Antarctic fur seal at South Georgia (S.W. Atlantic), a key indicator species in the krill-...