Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: LaRue, Michelle A., Ainley, David G., Swanson, Matt, Dugger, Katie M., Lyver, Phil O′B., Barton, Kerry, Ballard, Grant
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Beaufort Island; McMurdo Station; Ross Island; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelves; Pygoscelis adeliae
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3616090; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23573267; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060568

There will be winners and losers as climate change alters the habitats of polar organisms. For an Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colony on Beaufort Island (Beaufort), part of a cluster of colonies in the southern Ross Sea, we report a recent population increase in response to increased nesting...