Predicting responses of the Adélie penguin population of Edmonson Point to future sea ice changes in the Ross Sea

• Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Ballerini T., Tavecchia G., Pezzo F., Jenouvrier S., Olmastroni S.
• Other Authors: Ballerini, T., Tavecchia, G., Pezzo, F., Jenouvrier, S., Olmastroni, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Climate change; Environmental stochasticity; IPCC; Matrix population model; Metapopulation dynamic; Population growth; Seabirds; Edmonson Point; Ross Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1108761; https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00008

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...