Two Recent Massive Breeding Failures in an Adélie Penguin Colony Call for the Creation of a Marine Protected Area in D'Urville Sea/Mertz
International audience In the d’Urville Sea in East Antarctica, a population of roughly 20,000 pairs of Adéliepenguins of Iles des Pétrels (Terre Adélie) has experienced two massive breeding failures,with no chick surviving the 2013–14 and 2016–17 breeding seasons. In both seasonsthe extent of sea i...
Published in: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
Other Authors: | , , , , , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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2018
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Online Access: | https://hal.science/hal-01912177 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00264 |