Antarctic penguin response to habitat change as earth's troposphere reaches 2° C above preindustrial levels

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-66

  Ainley, David ^a   Russell, Joellen ^b   Jenouvrier, Stephanie ^c   Woehler, Eric ^d   Lyver, Philip O'B ^e   Fraser, William R ^f   Kooyman, Gerald L ^g  

^a HT Harvey and Associates   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^f Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 c warming; Ad lie penguin; Antarctica; climate change; Climate modeling; Emperor penguin; Habitat optimum; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EUROPEAN UNION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; SEA ICE; SEABIRD; TROPOSPHERE; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

ANTARCTICA;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 77649199045     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2289.1     Document Type: Article

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