Projected continent-wide declines of the emperor penguin under climate change

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 715-718

  Jenouvrier, Stéphanie ^a,b   Holland, Marika ^c   Stroeve, Julienne ^d,e   Serreze, Mark ^d   Barbraud, Christophe ^b   Weimerskirch, Henri ^b   Caswell, Hal ^a,f  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84905372458     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2280     Document Type: Article

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