US EditionStudy finds penguins breeding two weeks earlier as Antarctica warms
Gentoo penguins advanced breeding by up to 13 days per decade, increasing competition and threatening krill-specialist species, with temperatures rising 3°C from 2012 to 2022.
- Published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers report that with temperatures increasing by 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, three penguin species began breeding about two weeks earlier than a decade ago.
- Researchers found colony locations are warming four times faster than the Antarctic average, with less sea ice causing earlier phytoplankton blooms that alter breeding prey timing.
- With 77 time-lapse cameras at 37 colonies, Penguin Watch volunteers annotated over 9 million images, enabling decade-long landscape-level analysis of breeding and temperature changes.
- Researchers warn climate change creates 'winners and losers', favouring gentoo penguins while Adélie and Chinstrap penguins decline, with overlapping breeding seasons threatening chick survival and models suggesting extinction risk in the Antarctic Peninsula.
- Scientists urge continued monitoring as Ignacio Juarez Martinez states, `The scale is so great that penguins in most areas are now breeding earlier than in any historical records`.
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Antarctic warming speeds up penguin breeding, study finds
A new study published on Tuesday (January 20) in the Journal of Animal Ecology found three Antarctic penguin species starting their breeding season markedly earlier than a decade ago, in what researchers say is a record shift likely linked to rapid warming at colony sites in the Antarctic region.
The penguins of Antarctica are being reproducing earlier, at an unprecedented rate due to climate change, is that they point to a study published on this Wednesday in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The international research analyzed a decade of observations and detected an extraordinary change in the patterns of reproduction of penguins, closely related to the increase of temperatures on the continent, said the main author of the study, Ignacio…
Penguins are starting to hatch earlier than ever as climate change warms Antarctica, according to a study published Tuesday by an international team of scientists.
Antarctic Penguins Are Breeding 13 Days Earlier Than They Did a Decade Ago — Likely Due to Climate Change
Learn how a decade of monitoring reveals why Antarctic penguins are breeding earlier than ever, and what those shifts may signal about life in one of the world’s fastest-warming regions.
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