Using predicted patterns of 3D prey distribution to map king penguin foraging habitat

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Proud, Roland, Le Guen, Camille, Sherley, Richard Brian, Kato, Akiko, Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Ratcliffe, Norman, Jarman, Simon, Wyness, Adam, Arnould, John P.Y, Saunders, Ryan A., Fernandes, Paul, Boehme, Lars, Brierley, Andrew S.
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: SDG 14 - Life Below Water; acoustic surveys; Aptenodytes patagonicu s; diving behavior; foraging habitat; king penguin; prey distribution; Southern Ocean; South Georgia; QH301 Biology; Other; CASS-129; Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); NE/R012679/1; Supplementary Information; QH301; Antarctic; Endeavour; Kerguelen; King Edward Point; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey; King Penguins; Swiss Polar Institute
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/17579; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.745200; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars. 2021.745200/full#supplementary-material

FUNDING The at-sea data collection and 50% of CLG’s Ph.D. studentship was provided by the Swiss Polar Institute as a grant ‘Unlocking the Secrets of the False Bottom’ to ASB. The School of Biology, University of St Andrews, funded the other 50% of CLG’s studentship. Work at South Georgia was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council’s Collaborative Antarctic Science Scheme (CASS-129), a grant from the TransAntarctic Association grant to RBS, and a British Antarctic Survey Collaborative Gearing Scheme grant to RBS and ASB. ASB and RP were supported in part by UKRI/NERC under grant NE/R012679/1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the staff at the British Antarctic Survey base at King Edward Point (South Georgia), Quark Expeditions and the crew and staff of the Ocean Endeavour and the FPV Pharos South Georgia for their help with the fieldwork logistics. We also thank the Swiss Polar Institute and the ACE foundation for funding our ACE project, and all our colleagues who assisted with acoustic data collection at sea: Matteo Bernasconi, Inigo Everson, and Joshua Lawrence. We thank Yves Cherel for fruitful discussion on the role of prey patches for king penguins in the Kerguelen region. We also thank C. Ribout and the Centre for Biological Studies of Chizé for conducting the sexing analyses of the birds Peer reviewed