Marine ecosystem assessment for the Southern Ocean: birds and marine mammals in a changing climate

S Bestley, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Antarctic ecosystems in transition–life between stresses and opportunities

J Gutt, E Isla, JC Xavier, BJ Adams, IY Ahn… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Important findings from the second decade of the 21st century on the impact of
environmental change on biological processes in the Antarctic were synthesised by 26 …

Foraging behavior links sea ice to breeding success in Antarctic penguins

YY Watanabe, K Ito, N Kokubun, A Takahashi - Science Advances, 2020 - science.org
Population trends and breeding success variability of Adélie penguins, a bioindicator of
Antarctic environments, have been attributed to changing sea-ice extents; however …

Circumpolar assessment of mercury contamination: the Adélie penguin as a bioindicator of Antarctic marine ecosystems

F Cusset, P Bustamante, A Carravieri, C Bertin… - Ecotoxicology, 2023 - Springer
Due to its persistence and potential ecological and health impacts, mercury (Hg) is a global
pollutant of major concern that may reach high concentrations even in remote polar oceans …

Size and body condition of sympatric killer whale ecotypes around the Antarctic Peninsula

JW Durban, H Fearnbach, A Paredes… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Killer whales Orcinus orca are apex predators, and their health can indicate trophic
dynamics in ecosystems that support them. We used aerial photogrammetry to estimate …

Sea ice predicts long‐term trends in Adélie penguin population growth, but not annual fluctuations: Results from a range‐wide multiscale analysis

DT Iles, H Lynch, R Ji, C Barbraud… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the scales at which environmental variability affects populations is critical for
projecting population dynamics and species distributions in rapidly changing environments …

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 …

Benthic ecoregionalization based on echinoid fauna of the Southern Ocean supports current proposals of Antarctic Marine Protected Areas under IPCC scenarios of …

S Fabri‐Ruiz, B Danis, N Navarro… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Ocean (SO) is among the regions on Earth that are undergoing
regionally the fastest environmental changes. The unique ecological features of its marine …

Foraging in a dynamic environment: Response of four sympatric sub‐Antarctic albatross species to interannual environmental variability

T Carpenter‐Kling, RR Reisinger, F Orgeret… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal and annual climate variations are linked to fluctuations in the abundance and
distribution of resources, posing a significant challenge to animals that need to adjust their …

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 …