Ecological niche models and species distribution models in marine environments: A literature review and spatial analysis of evidence

SM Melo-Merino, H Reyes-Bonilla, A Lira-Noriega - Ecological Modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the use of ecological niche models (ENMs) and species distribution models
(SDMs) to explore the patterns and processes behind observed distribution of species has …

Update on the global abundance and distribution of breeding Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua)

R Herman, A Borowicz, M Lynch, P Trathan, T Hart… - Polar Biology, 2020 - Springer
Though climate change is widely known to negatively affect the distribution and abundance
of many species, few studies have focused on species that may benefit. Gentoo Penguin …

Phytoplankton adapt to changing ocean environments

AJ Irwin, ZV Finkel, FE Müller-Karger… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Model projections indicate that climate change may dramatically restructure phytoplankton
communities, with cascading consequences for marine food webs. It is currently not known …

Adélie penguin population diet monitoring by analysis of food DNA in scats

SN Jarman, JC McInnes, C Faux, AM Polanowski… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Adélie penguin is the most important animal currently used for ecosystem monitoring in
the Southern Ocean. The diet of this species is generally studied by visual analysis of …

Geographic structuring of Antarctic penguin populations

JA Santora, MA LaRue… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We hypothesized that regional spatial organization of Antarctic penguin breeding
populations was affected by social factors, that is, proximity and size of adjacent colonies …

Projected asymmetric response of Adélie penguins to Antarctic climate change

MA Cimino, HJ Lynch, VS Saba, MJ Oliver - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The contribution of climate change to shifts in a species' geographic distribution is a critical
and often unresolved ecological question. Climate change in Antarctica is asymmetric, with …

Two recent massive breeding failures in an Adélie penguin colony call for the creation of a marine protected area in D'Urville Sea/Mertz

Y Ropert-Coudert, A Kato, K Shiomi… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In the d'Urville Sea in East Antarctica, a population of roughly 20,000 pairs of Adélie
penguins of Iles des Pétrels (Terre Adélie) has experienced two massive breeding failures …

Species distribution models of an endangered rodent offer conflicting measures of habitat quality at multiple scales

WT Bean, LR Prugh, R Stafford… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The high cost of directly measuring habitat quality has led ecologists to test alternate
methods for estimating and predicting this critically important ecological variable. In …

Decadal changes in habitat characteristics influence population trajectories of southern elephant seals

MA Hindell, M Sumner, S Bestley… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding divergent biological responses to climate change is important for predicting
ecosystem level consequences. We use species habitat models to predict the winter …

Climate-driven sympatry may not lead to foraging competition between congeneric top-predators

MA Cimino, MA Moline, WR Fraser… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Climate-driven sympatry may lead to competition for food resources between species. Rapid
warming in the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is coincident with increasing gentoo …