Integrative Studies of Southern Ocean Food-Webs and Pygoscelis Penguin Demography: Mechanisms of Population Response to Environmental Change

• Main Author: Gorman, Kristen Beth
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Charcot; Anvers; Anvers Island; Charcot Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/15610

Unraveling the proximate physiological, ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underlie population responses to environmental variability is an increasingly important challenge facing conservation biologists and is the primary motivation of this thesis. I studied Pygoscelis penguins that breed...