Population Size and Decadal Trends of Three Penguin Species Nesting at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

• Main Authors: Michael J Dunn, Jennifer A Jackson, Stacey Adlard, Amanda S Lynnes, Dirk R Briggs, Derren Fox, Claire M Waluda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Signy Island; South Orkney Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Chinstrap penguin; Gentoo penguin; Pygoscelis adeliae; Pygoscelis antarctica; Pygoscelis papua
• Online Access: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164025; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164025&type=printable

We report long-term changes in population size of three species of sympatrically breeding pygoscelid penguins: Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) and gentoo (Pygoscelis papua ellsworthii) over a 38 year period at Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, based on annual counts...