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Where to live? Landfast sea ice shapes emperor penguin habitat around Antarctica

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Predicting species survival in the face of climate change requires understanding the drivers that influence their distribution. Emperor penguins ( Aptenodytes forsteri ) incubate and rear chicks on landfast sea ice, whose extent, dynamics, and quality are expected to vary substantially due to climate change. Until recently, this species’ continent-wide observations were scarce, and knowledge on their distribution and habitat limited. Advances in satellite imagery now allow their observation and characterization of habitats across Antarctica at high resolution. Using circumpolar high-resolution satellite images, unique fast ice metrics, and geographic and biological factors, we identified diverse penguin habitats across the continent, with no significant difference between areas with penguins or not. There is a clear geographic partitioning of colonies with respect to their defining habitat characteristics, indicating possible behavioral plasticity among different metapopulations. This coincides with geographic structures found in previous genetic studies. Given projections of quasi-extinction for this species in 2100, this study provides essential information for conservation measures.
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Sara Labrousse, David Nerini, Stéphanie Jenouvrier, Alexander Fraser, Leonardo Salas, et al.. Where to live? Landfast sea ice shapes emperor penguin habitat around Antarctica. Science Advances , 2023, 9 (39), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.adg8340⟩. ⟨hal-04287479⟩
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