A new high-latitude record for the macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) at Avian Island, Antarctica

Polar Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1155-1158

  Gorman, K B ^a,c   Erdmann, E S ^b,c   Pickering, B C ^c   Horne, P J ^c   Blum, J R ^c   Lucas, H M ^c   Patterson Fraser, D L ^c   Fraser, W R ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Polar Oceans Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio geographic range shift; Climate warming; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Vagrancy; Western Antarctic Peninsula

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LATITUDE; NEW RECORD; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; AVIAN ISLAND; WEST ANTARCTICA;

AVES; EUDYPTES CHRYSOLOPHUS; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 77954658358     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0795-y     Document Type: Article

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