Large-scale occupancy surveys in East Antarctica discover new Adélie penguin breeding sites and reveal an expanding breeding distribution

Antarctic Science

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 531-535

  Southwell, Colin ^a   Emmerson, Louise ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

colonization; metapopulation; population dynamics; Pygoscelis adeliae, spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION RISK; METAPOPULATION; NEW RECORD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84880360308     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102012001174     Document Type: Article

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