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Volume 26, No. 3
Pages 204 - 206

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Penguin Biogeography Along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the Canyon Hypothesis with Palmer LTER Observations

By Oscar Schofield , Hugh Ducklow , Kim Bernard , Scott Doney , Donna Patterson-Fraser, Kristen Gorman , Doug Martinson, Michael Meredith, Grace Saba, Sharon Stammerjohn, Deborah Steinberg , and William Fraser 
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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 (Ducklow et al., 2013, in this issue). 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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Schofield, O., H. Ducklow, K. Bernard, S. Doney, D. Patterson-Fraser, K. Gorman, D. Martinson, M. Meredith, G. Saba, S. Stammerjohn, and others. 2013. Penguin biogeography along the West Antarctic Peninsula: Testing the Canyon Hypothesis with Palmer LTER observations. Oceanography 26(3):204–206, https://doi.org/​10.5670/oceanog.2013.63.

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