Happy feet in a hostile world? The future of penguins depends on proactive management of current and expected threats

Y Ropert-Coudert, A Chiaradia, D Ainley… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Penguins face a wide range of threats. Most observed population changes have been
negative and have happened over the last 60 years. Today, populations of 11 penguin …

Climate change will re-draw the map for marine megafauna and the people who depend on them

SO Grose, L Pendleton, A Leathers… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is expected to dramatically alter the distribution of many marine megafauna,
impacting the people and economies that depend upon them. We build on the recent …

Environmental change, resilience, and adaptation in nature-based tourism: Conceptualizing the social-ecological resilience of birdwatching tour operations

D Kutzner - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Resilience theory has emerged as a holistic concept well suited to analyzing tourism
systems and which promises important insights into the sustainability of tourism destinations …

Environment‐triggered demographic changes cascade and compound to propel a dramatic decline of an Antarctic seabird metapopulation

L Emmerson, C Southwell - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While seabirds are well‐known for making a living under some of the harshest conditions on
the planet, their capacity to buffer against unfavourable conditions can be stretched in …

Applying science to pressing conservation needs for penguins

PD Boersma, PG Borboroglu, NJ Gownaris… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
More than half of the world's 18 penguin species are declining. We, the Steering Committee
of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Penguin …

Species in the faeces: DNA metabarcoding as a method to determine the diet of the endangered yellow-eyed penguin

MJ Young, L Dutoit, F Robertson, Y van Heezik… - Wildlife …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Context. Diet variability is a significant driver of seabird decline; however, data on seabird
diet composition and trends have been affected by changes in precision and resolution …

Genomics detects population structure within and between ocean basins in a circumpolar seabird: the white‐chinned petrel

K Rexer‐Huber, AJ Veale, P Catry, Y Cherel… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern Ocean represents a continuous stretch of circumpolar marine habitat,
but the potential physical and ecological drivers of evolutionary genetic differentiation across …

Intractable: species in New Zealand that continue to decline despite conservation efforts

KM Hare, SB Borrelle, HL Buckley… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Global biodiversity loss is accelerating at an alarming rate. While considerable effort and
resources have gone into conservation management for many threatened species in New …

[HTML][HTML] A novel gyrovirus is abundant in yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) chicks with a fatal respiratory disease

JR Wierenga, KJ Morgan, S Hunter, HS Taylor… - Virology, 2023 - Elsevier
Yellow-eyed penguins (Megadyptes antipodes), or hoiho in te reo Māori, are predicted to
become extinct on mainland Aotearoa New Zealand in the next few decades, with infectious …

High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

H Pan, TL Cole, X Bi, M Fang, C Zhou, Z Yang… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Penguins (Sphenisciformes) are a remarkable order of flightless wing-
propelled diving seabirds distributed widely across the southern hemisphere. They share a …