Extreme ecological response of a seabird community to unprecedented sea ice cover

• Published in: Royal Society Open Science
• Main Authors: Henri Weimerskirch, Karine Delord, Christophe Barbraud
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de La Rochelle (ULR), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: skuas; petrels; sea ice; Antarctic; breeding; penguins; 1001; 60; Biology (Whole Organism); Research Article; geo; envir; D'Urville Sea; Dumont d'Urville; Dumont-d'Urville; East Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Dumont D'Urville Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/5/140456.full.pdf; https://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/5/140456.full.pdf; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01304693; http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4453256; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.140456; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140456; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsos.140456; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.140456; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064653; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015RSOS.240456B/abstract; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2268233414

International audience; Climate change has been predicted to reduce Antarctic sea ice but, instead, sea ice surrounding Antarctica has expanded over the past 30 years, albeit with contrasted regional changes. Here we report a recent extreme event in sea ice conditions in East Antarctica and investig...