Penguin biogeography along the West Antarctic Peninsula : testing the canyon hypothesis with Palmer LTER observations

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2013-09
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Schofield, Oscar M. E. 
Ducklow, Hugh W. 
Bernard, Kim S. 
Doney, Scott C. 
Patterson-Fraser, Donna 
Gorman, Kristen 
Martinson, Douglas G. 
Meredith, Michael P. 
Saba, Grace 
Stammerjohn, Sharon E. 
Steinberg, Deborah K. 
Fraser, William R. 
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/6242
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https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.63
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10.5670/oceanog.2013.63
Abstract
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 heterogeneously along the WAP. This ecological conundrum targets a long-standing question of interest: what environmental factors structure the locations of Adélie penguin "hot spots" throughout the WAP?
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Author Posting. © The Oceanography Society, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of The Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 26, no. 3 (2013): 204–206, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2013.63.
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Oceanography 26, no. 3 (2013): 204–206