Adélie penguins coping with environmental change: results fr
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TitleAdélie penguins coping with environmental change: results from a natural experiment at the edge of their breeding rangeAcknowledgementsFunding was provided by National Science Foundation Grants OPP 9526865, 9814882, 0125608, 0944411 and 0440643 (to Katie M. Dugger, David G. Ainley, and Grant Ballard) and New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Grants C09X0510 and C01X1001 (to Phil O’B. Lyver). We offer many thanks to the large number of people who helped collect field data for this project over the last 14 years. Fieldwork was conducted with logistic support provided by the US Antarctic Program and Antarctica New Zealand. All penguin survey, capture and handling methods performed during data collection for this study were approved under appropriate Antarctic Conservation Act permits from the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, Landcare Research Animal Ethics Committee Permit Programme and Oregon State University’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUP #3049, 3672, 4130). We greatly appreciate comments made on earlier versions of this manuscript by Dr. Jefferson Hinke and two anonymous reviewers, and thanks to Dennis Jongsomjit (Point Blue Conservation Science) for his help revising figures. This is Point Blue Conservation Science Contribution No. 2000. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
