Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea
Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) predict changes in the sea ice environment and in atmospheric precipitations over larger areas of Antarctica. These changes are expected to affect the population dynamics of seabirds and marine mammals, but the extent of this influence is not clea...
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ftunivsiena:oai:usiena-air.unisi.it:11365/1108761 2024-04-14T08:04:39+00:00 Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea Ballerini T. Tavecchia G. Pezzo F. Jenouvrier S. Olmastroni S. Ballerini, T. Tavecchia, G. Pezzo, F. Jenouvrier, S. Olmastroni, S. 2015 ELETTRONICO http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1108761 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00008 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000485318800016 volume:3 issue:FEB journal:FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1108761 doi:10.3389/fevo.2015.00008 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84953836504 Climate change Environmental stochasticity IPCC Matrix population model Metapopulation dynamic Population growth Seabirds info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2015 ftunivsiena https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00008 2024-03-21T16:07:18Z Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) predict changes in the sea ice environment and in atmospheric precipitations over larger areas of Antarctica. These changes are expected to affect the population dynamics of seabirds and marine mammals, but the extent of this influence is not clear. We investigated the future population trajectories of the colony of Adélie penguins at Edmonson Point, in the Ross Sea, from 2010 to 2100. To do so, we incorporated the relationship between sea ice and demographic parameters of the studied colony into a matrix population model. Specifically, we used sea ice projections from AOGCMs and a proxy for snowfall precipitation. Simulations of population persistence under future climate change scenarios showed that a reduction in sea ice extent (SIE) and an increase in precipitation events during the breeding season will drive the population to extinction. However, the population growth rate estimated by the model was lower than the population growth rate observed during the last decades, suggesting that recruits from other colonies maintain the observed population dynamics at Edmonson Point. This local "rescue" effect is consistent with a metapopulation dynamic for Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea, in which neighboring colonies might exhibit contrasting population trends and different density-dependent effects. In the hypothesis that connectivity with larger source colonies or that local recruitment would decrease, the sink colony at Edmonson Point is predicted to disappear. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Ross Sea Sea ice Università degli Studi di Siena: USiena air Edmonson Point ENVELOPE(165.133,165.133,-74.333,-74.333) Ross Sea Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3 |
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Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs) predict changes in the sea ice environment and in atmospheric precipitations over larger areas of Antarctica. These changes are expected to affect the population dynamics of seabirds and marine mammals, but the extent of this influence is not clear. We investigated the future population trajectories of the colony of Adélie penguins at Edmonson Point, in the Ross Sea, from 2010 to 2100. To do so, we incorporated the relationship between sea ice and demographic parameters of the studied colony into a matrix population model. Specifically, we used sea ice projections from AOGCMs and a proxy for snowfall precipitation. Simulations of population persistence under future climate change scenarios showed that a reduction in sea ice extent (SIE) and an increase in precipitation events during the breeding season will drive the population to extinction. However, the population growth rate estimated by the model was lower than the population growth rate observed during the last decades, suggesting that recruits from other colonies maintain the observed population dynamics at Edmonson Point. This local "rescue" effect is consistent with a metapopulation dynamic for Adélie penguins in the Ross Sea, in which neighboring colonies might exhibit contrasting population trends and different density-dependent effects. In the hypothesis that connectivity with larger source colonies or that local recruitment would decrease, the sink colony at Edmonson Point is predicted to disappear. |
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Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea |
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Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea |
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Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea |
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Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea |
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Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea |
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predicting responses of the adélie penguin population of edmonson point to future sea ice changes in the ross sea |
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