Emperor penguins and climate change

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 183-186

  Barbraud, Christophe ^a,b   Welmerskirch, Henri ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; SEA ICE;

MARINE PREDATORS;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA ICE;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WATER TEMPERATURE; WINTER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; ICE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0035837356     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075554     Document Type: Article

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