Emerging evidence of resource limitation in an Antarctic seabird metapopulation after 6 decades of sustained population growth

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Southwell, C, Wotherspoon, S, Emmerson, L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2021
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Ecology; Population ecology; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Windmill Islands; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04958-z; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34109449; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/146016

The influence of resource limitation on spatio-temporal population dynamics is a fundamental theme in ecology and the concepts of carrying capacity, density dependence and population synchrony are central to this theme. The life history characteristics of seabirds, which include use of disjunct patc...