Penguin biogeography along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the canyon hypothesis with Palmer LTER observations

Schofield, Oscar; Ducklow, Hugh; Bernard, Kim; Doney, Scott; Patterson-Fraser, Donna; Gorman, Kristen B.; Martinson, Doug; Meredith, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-7756; Saba, Grace; Stammerjohn, Sharon; Steinberg, Deborah; Fraser, William. 2013 Penguin biogeography along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the canyon hypothesis with Palmer LTER observations. Oceanography, 26 (3). 204-206. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.63

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Abstract/Summary

The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is home to large breeding colonies of the ice-dependent Antarctic Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae). Although the entire inner continental shelf is highly productive, with abundant phytoplankton and krill populations, penguin colonies are distributed heterogeneously along the WAP (Ducklow et al., 2013, in this issue). This ecological conundrum targets a long-standing question of interest: what environmental factors structure the locations of Adélie penguin "hot spots" throughout the WAP?

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.63
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Polar Oceans
ISSN:	1042-8275
Date made live:	27 Aug 2013 10:57 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/501744

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.63

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Polar Oceans

ISSN:

1042-8275

Date made live:

27 Aug 2013 10:57 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/501744