Recent occupation by Adélie Penguins ( Pygoscelis adeliae ) at Hope Bay and Seymour Island and the ‘northern enigma’ in the Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Emslie, Steven D., McKenzie, Ashley, Marti, Lucas J., Santos, María Mercedes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Ciencias Naturales; Adélie Penguin; Occupation history; Ornithogenic soils; Hope Bay; Seymour Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Boeckella; East Antarctica; King George Island; Lake Boeckella; Ross Sea; Seymour; The Antarctic; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Pygoscelis adeliae
• Online Access: http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/140061

We excavated active and abandoned Adelie Penguin ( Pygoscelis adeliae ) colonies at Seymour Island and Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula, to determine an occupation history for this species at these sites. Previous research at Hope Bay has indicated an occupation there since the middle Holocene, based o...