Foraging strategies of Adélie penguins: adjusting body condition to cope with environmental variability
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Adélie penguins and environmental change.
IN THEIR REVIEW “ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE and Antarctic seabird populations,” (Special Issue on Polar Science, 30 Aug., p. 1510), J. P. Croxall et al. describe paradoxes, many of which exist only because of a limited review of available information. Stating that the paleoecological record shows close correspondence between ice cover and the presence of Adélie penguins is correct (1), but claiming t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Marine Ecology Progress Series
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0171-8630,1616-1599
DOI: 10.3354/meps08514