A complete breeding failure in an Adélie penguin colony correlates with unusual and extreme environmental events

• Published in: Ecography
• Main Authors: Ropert‐coudert, Yan, Kato, Akiko, Meyer, Xavier, Pellé, Marie, Macintosh, Andrew J. J., Angelier, Frédéric, Chastel, Olivier, Widmann, Michel, Arthur, Ben, Raymond, Ben, Raclot, Thierry
• Other Authors: Département Ecologie, Physiologie et Ethologie (DEPE-IPHC), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Kyoto University, Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies Hobart (IMAS), University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia (UTAS), Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy, IPEV (prog.1091), WWF, Zone Atelier Antarctique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: sentinel species; climate change; extreme event; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; Terre Adélie; Terre-Adélie; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01076509; https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01182

International audience Among the outcomes of the drastic changes affecting the Earth’secosystems, nothing is more telling than a complete failure in thereproductive success of a sentinel species: a “zero” year. Here, we foundthat unusual environmental conditions in the Terre Adélie sector ofAntarcti...