Penguin Biogeography Along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the Canyon Hypothesis with Palmer LTER Observations

Penguin Biogeography Along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the Canyon Hypothesis with Palmer LTER Observations

The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is home to large breeding colonies of the ice-dependent Antarctic Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae). Although the entire inner continental shelf is highly productive, with abundant phytoplankton and krill populations, penguin colonies are distributed heterogeneou...

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Main Authors: Oscar Schofield, Hugh Ducklow, Kim Bernard, Scott Doney, Donna Patterson-Fraser, Kristen Gorman, Doug Martinson, Michael Meredith, Grace Saba, Sharon Stammerjohn, Deborah Steinberg, William Fraser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2013-09-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
LTER
Palmer LTER
penguins
West Antarctic Peninsula
Adelie penguin
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-3_schofield.pdf

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