From warm to cold: migration of Adélie penguins within Cape Bird, Ross Island

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Nie, Yaguang, Sun, Liguang, Liu, Xiaodong, Emslie, Steven D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
• Subjects: Article; Cape Bird; Ross Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4650636/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26113152; https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11530

Due to their sensitivity to environmental change, penguins in Antarctica are widely used as bio-indicators in paleoclimatic research. On the basis of bio-element assemblages identified in four ornithogenic sediment profiles, we reconstructed the historical penguin population change at Cape Bird, Ros...