Too much of a good thing: Sea ice extent may have forced emperor penguins into refugia during the last glacial maximum

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2215-2226

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Author keywords

Aptenodytes forsteri; Antarctica; Climate change ecology; Molecular ecology; Paleoecology; Phylogeography; Polynya; Ross Sea

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE RETREAT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REFUGIUM; SEA ICE; SEABIRD;

ADELIE COAST; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; ICE COVER; PENGUIN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; ICE COVER; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGIUM; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84928357074     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12882     Document Type: Article

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