Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation
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...
Published in: | PLoS ONE |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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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 |