Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands

Pygoscelis penguins are valuable indicators of the effects of rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula. In the western Antarctic Peninsula, Adélie penguins show a declining population trend, whereas gentoo penguins are expanding. The notably low reproductive success of Adélie but not gentoo penguins...

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Hlavní autor: Machado-Gaye, Ana Laura (author)
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author Machado-Gaye, Ana Laura
author2 Manta, Gaston
Braun, Christina
Menéndez-Blázquez, Javier
Raslan, Maryam
Zaldúa, Natalia
Soutullo, Álvaro
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Machado-Gaye, Ana Laura
Manta, Gaston
Menéndez-Blázquez, Javier
Raslan, Maryam
Soutullo, Álvaro
Zaldúa, Natalia
author_facet Machado-Gaye, Ana Laura
Manta, Gaston
Braun, Christina
Menéndez-Blázquez, Javier
Raslan, Maryam
Zaldúa, Natalia
Soutullo, Álvaro
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Manta, Gaston
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Raslan, Maryam
Zaldúa, Natalia
Soutullo, Álvaro
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Breeding phenology
Foraging trips
King George Island
Pygoscelis adeliae
Pygoscelis papua
Ciencias Naturales y Exactas
Ciencias Biológicas
Ecología
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
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description Pygoscelis penguins are valuable indicators of the effects of rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula. In the western Antarctic Peninsula, Adélie penguins show a declining population trend, whereas gentoo penguins are expanding. The notably low reproductive success of Adélie but not gentoo penguins at Ardley Island during the 2023/2024 breeding season provided an opportunity to explore the potential effects of weather conditions and food availability as possible determinants of reproductive output. We explore associations between reproductive output, air temperature, wind speed, wind chill temperature and accumulated rain and snow. As a proxy for food availability, we used data of penguins’ foraging trips, which reflect krill abundance. A late-winter storm at the end of October 2023 led to a record-low wind chill temperature and sustained snow cover, negatively affecting the number of eggs that hatched successfully and/or the number of chicks that survived the first days after hatching. The effects were similar for both species, yet for gentoo penguins chick survival in the late stage of the chick-rearing phase was remarkably higher, possibly due to high food availability and a longer nestling period. As previously suggested, the greater plasticity of gentoo penguins may allow them to mitigate the negative effects of environmental variability, potentially explaining this divergent breeding success despite unusually harsh meteorological conditions.
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spelling Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland IslandsMachado-Gaye, Ana LauraManta, GastonBraun, ChristinaMenéndez-Blázquez, JavierRaslan, MaryamZaldúa, NataliaSoutullo, ÁlvaroBreeding phenologyForaging tripsKing George IslandPygoscelis adeliaePygoscelis papuaCiencias Naturales y ExactasCiencias BiológicasEcologíaPygoscelis penguins are valuable indicators of the effects of rapid warming in the Antarctic Peninsula. In the western Antarctic Peninsula, Adélie penguins show a declining population trend, whereas gentoo penguins are expanding. The notably low reproductive success of Adélie but not gentoo penguins at Ardley Island during the 2023/2024 breeding season provided an opportunity to explore the potential effects of weather conditions and food availability as possible determinants of reproductive output. We explore associations between reproductive output, air temperature, wind speed, wind chill temperature and accumulated rain and snow. As a proxy for food availability, we used data of penguins’ foraging trips, which reflect krill abundance. A late-winter storm at the end of October 2023 led to a record-low wind chill temperature and sustained snow cover, negatively affecting the number of eggs that hatched successfully and/or the number of chicks that survived the first days after hatching. The effects were similar for both species, yet for gentoo penguins chick survival in the late stage of the chick-rearing phase was remarkably higher, possibly due to high food availability and a longer nestling period. As previously suggested, the greater plasticity of gentoo penguins may allow them to mitigate the negative effects of environmental variability, potentially explaining this divergent breeding success despite unusually harsh meteorological conditions.Agencia Nacional de Investigación e InnovaciónEcos-Sud ProgramCommission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living ResourcesCambridge University Press2025-12-16T14:22:35Z2025-12-16T14:22:35Z2025-09Artículoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlePublicadoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/5341FCE_1_2021_1_166587POS_NAC_2021_1_169785https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102025100291Antarctic Sciencereponame:REDIinstname:Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovacióninstacron:Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovaciónenghttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3928https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3914https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3913https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3912https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3903https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/3915https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/5241Acceso abiertoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessReconocimiento-SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional. (CC BY-ND)oai:redi.anii.org.uy:20.500.12381/53412026-06-16T05:02:55Z
spellingShingle Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
Machado-Gaye, Ana Laura
Breeding phenology
Foraging trips
King George Island
Pygoscelis adeliae
Pygoscelis papua
Ciencias Naturales y Exactas
Ciencias Biológicas
Ecología
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title Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
title_full Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
title_fullStr Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
title_full_unstemmed Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
title_short Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
title_sort Divergent responses of Pygoscelis penguins to unfavourable weather conditions in the South Shetland Islands
topic Breeding phenology
Foraging trips
King George Island
Pygoscelis adeliae
Pygoscelis papua
Ciencias Naturales y Exactas
Ciencias Biológicas
Ecología
url https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/5341
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102025100291