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ArticleScientific reports2015

From warm to cold: migration of Adélie penguins within Cape Bird, Ross Island.

Yaguang Nie, Liguang Sun, Xiaodong Liu, Steven D Emslie

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Yaguang Nie1] Institute of Polar Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of P. R. China, Hefei 230026, China [2] Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230031, P. R. China.
Liguang SunInstitute of Polar Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of P. R. China, Hefei 230026, China.
Xiaodong LiuInstitute of Polar Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of P. R. China, Hefei 230026, China.
Steven D EmslieDepartment of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to their sensitivity to environmental change, penguins in Antarctica are widely used as bio-indicators in paleoclimatic research. On the basis of bio-element assemblages identified in four ornithogenic sediment profiles, we reconstructed the historical penguin population change at Cape Bird, Ross Island, for the past 1600 years. Clear succession of penguin population peaks were observed in different profiles at about 1400 AD, which suggested a high probability of migration within this region. The succession was most obviously marked by a sand layer lasting from 1400 to 1900 AD in one of the analyzed profiles. Multiple physical/chemical parameters indicated this sand layer was not formed in a lacustrine environment, but was marine-derived. Both isostatic subsidence and frequent storms under the colder climatic condition of the Little Ice Age were presumed to have caused the abandonment of the colonies, and we believe the penguins migrated from the coastal area of mid Cape Bird northward and to higher ground as recorded in the other sediment profiles. This migration was an ecological response to global climate change and possible subsequent geological effects in Antarctica.

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