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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2011
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Dion; Dion Islands; Emperor Island; Stonehouse; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046112; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21386883; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014738

In 1948, a small colony of emperor penguins Aptenodytes forsteri was discovered breeding on Emperor Island (67° 51′ 52″ S, 68° 42′ 20″ W), in the Dion Islands, close to the West Antarctic Peninsula (Stonehouse 1952). When discovered, the colony comprised approximately 150 breeding pairs; these numbe...