Two Recent Massive Breeding Failures in an Adélie Penguin Colony Call for the Creation of a Marine Protected Area in D'Urville Sea/Mertz

Two Recent Massive Breeding Failures in an Adélie Penguin Colony Call for the Creation of a Marine Protected Area in D'Urville Sea/Mertz

In the d'Urville Sea in East Antarctica, a population of roughly 20,000 pairs of Adélie penguins 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 seasons the extent of sea ice in front of...

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Main Authors: Yan Ropert-Coudert, Akiko Kato, Kozue Shiomi, Christophe Barbraud, Frédéric Angelier, Karine Delord, Timothée Poupart, Philippe Koubbi, Thierry Raclot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
eco-indicating species
Sea ice
breeding
foraging
marine protected areas
seabirds
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00264/full

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