Increase in penguin populations during the Little Ice Age in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hu, Qi Hou ^a   Sun, Li Guang ^a   Xie, Zhou Qing ^a   Emslie, Steven D ^b   Liu, Xiao Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PENGUIN; POPULATION GROWTH; SEA;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CLIMATE; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84883155459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02472     Document Type: Article

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