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Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation

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  • There will be winners and losers as climate change alters the habitats of polar organisms. For an Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colony on Beaufort Island (Beaufort), part of a cluster of colonies in the southern Ross Sea, we report a recent population increase in response to increased nesting habitat as glaciers have receded. Emigration rates of birds banded as chicks on Beaufort to colonies on nearby Ross Island decreased after 2005 as available habitat on Beaufort increased, leading to altered dynamics of the metapopulation. Using aerial photography beginning in 1958 and modern satellite imagery, we measured change in area of available nesting habitat and population size of the Beaufort colony. Population size varied with available habitat, and both increased rapidly since the 1990s. In accord with glacial retreat, summer temperatures at nearby McMurdo Station increased by similar to 0.50 degrees C per decade since the mid-1980s. Although the Ross Sea is likely to be the last ocean with an intact ecosystem, the recent retreat of ice fields at Beaufort that resulted in increased breeding habitat exemplifies a process that has been underway in the Ross Sea during the entire Holocene. Furthermore, our results are in line with predictions that major ice shelves and glaciers will retreat rapidly elsewhere in the Antarctic, potentially leading to increased breeding habitat for Adelie penguins. Results further indicated that satellite imagery may be used to estimate large changes in Adelie penguin populations, facilitating our understanding of metapopulation dynamics and environmental factors that influence regional populations.
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  • LaRue MA, Ainley DG, Swanson M, Dugger KM, Lyver PO, Barton K, et al. (2013) Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0060568
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  • This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (ANT-1043681, ANT-0944411, ANT-0440643) and New Zealand’s Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (C09X0510, C01X0505, C01X1001). PRBO contribution #1926. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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