Palaeoecological changes in populations of Antarctic ice-dependent predators and their environmental drivers

• Main Author: Younger, JL
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: penguins; Southern Ocean; phylogeography; population genetics; palaeoecology; Adare; Adare Peninsula; Antarctic; Cape Roget; East Antarctica; Kya; Roget; Ross Sea; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Aptenodytes forsteri; Emperor penguins; Pygoscelis adeliae; Sea ice; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23477/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23477/1/Younger_whole_thesis.pdf

The Southern Ocean is undergoing rapid physical and biological changes that are likely to have profound implications for Antarctic fauna. One such change is a projected decline in the extent of the Antarctic sea ice field by the end of the century, and an associated shortening of the sea ice season....