Sea ice concentration decline in an important Adélie penguin molt area

AE Schmidt, A Lescroël, S Lisovski… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Unlike in many polar regions, the spatial extent and duration of the sea ice season have
increased in the Ross Sea sector of the Southern Ocean during the satellite era …

Marine important bird and biodiversity areas for penguins in Antarctica, targets for conservation action

J Handley, MM Rouyer, EJ Pearmain… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Global targets for area-based conservation and management must move beyond threshold-
based targets alone and must account for the quality of such areas. In the Southern Ocean …

Seabird and seal responses to the physical environment and to spatio-temporal variation in the distribution and abundance of Antarctic krill at South Georgia, with …

PN Trathan, S Fielding, V Warwick-Evans… - ICES Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We used 22 years of seasonally and spatially consistent monitoring data to explore marine
predator–prey numerical response relationships. Specifically, we tested whether indices of …

Horizontal-vertical movement relationships: Adélie penguins forage continuously throughout provisioning trips

J Riaz, S Bestley, S Wotherspoon, L Emmerson - Movement Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Background Diving marine predators forage in a three-dimensional environment, adjusting
their horizontal and vertical movement behaviour in response to environmental conditions …

Spatial link between Adélie penguin foraging effort and krill swarm abundance and distribution

J Riaz, S Bestley, S Wotherspoon, MJ Cox… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding how predator foraging behaviour is influenced by the distribution and
abundance of prey is a fundamental challenge in marine foraging ecology. This is …

Using a risk assessment framework to spatially and temporally spread the fishery catch limit for Antarctic krill in the west Antarctic Peninsula: a template for krill …

V Warwick-Evans, A Constable, L Dalla Rosa… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The west Antarctic Peninsula is an important breeding and foraging location for marine
predators that consume Antarctic Krill (Euphasia superba). It is also an important focus for …

A dynamic framework for assessing and managing risks to ecosystems from fisheries: demonstration for conserving the krill-based food web in Antarctica

AJ Constable, S Kawaguchi, M Sumner… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The ecosystem approach to fisheries has been discussed since the 1980s. It aims to reduce
risks from fisheries to whole, or components of, ecosystems, not just to target species …

An integrated compilation of data sources for the development of a marine protected area in the Weddell Sea

K Teschke, H Pehlke, V Siegel… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Southern Ocean may contribute a considerable amount to the proposed global
network of marine protected areas (MPAs) that should cover about 10% of the world's …

[HTML][HTML] Using habitat models for chinstrap penguins, Pygoscelis antarctica, to inform marine spatial management around the South Sandwich Islands during the …

GV Clucas, V Warwick-Evans, T Hart… - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2022 - Elsevier
If not carefully managed, harvesting of Antarctic krill risks disturbing the ecological balance
of many Antarctic and sub-Antarctic sites where krill-dependent predators feed. One of the …

The foraging behavior of nonbreeding Adélie penguins in the western Antarctic Peninsula during the breeding season

WC Oosthuizen, PA Pistorius, M Korczak‐Abshire… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Information on marine predator at‐sea distributions is key to understanding
ecosystem and community dynamics and an important component of spatial management …