Pollution, habitat loss, fishing, and climate change as critical threats to penguins

Climate Change Increases Reproductive Failure in Magellanic Penguins

(2014) P. Dee Boersma et al.   PLoS One

Antarctic Climate Change: Extreme Events Disrupt Plastic Phenotypic Response in Adélie Penguins

(2014) Amélie Lescroël et al.   PLoS One

Wide Range of Mercury Contamination in Chicks of Southern Ocean Seabirds

(2013) Pierre Blévin et al.   PLoS One

Climate Change Winners: Receding Ice Fields Facilitate Colony Expansion and Altered Dynamics in an Adélie Penguin Metapopulation

(2013) Michelle A. LaRue et al.   PLoS One

Straight Line Foraging in Yellow-Eyed Penguins: New Insights into Cascading Fisheries Effects and Orientation Capabilities of Marine Predators

(2013) Thomas Mattern et al.   PLoS One

Risk maps for Antarctic krill under projected Southern Ocean acidification

(2013) S. Kawaguchi et al.   Nature Climate Change

Seabird conservation status, threats and priority actions: a global assessment

(2012) JOHN P. CROXALL et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Spatially integrated assessment reveals widespread changes in penguin populations on the Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) Heather J. Lynch et al.   ECOLOGY

Marine protected areas: Settle discord over the Southern Ocean

(2012) Philip N. Trathan   NATURE

The Risks of Overfishing

(2012) E. K. Pikitch   SCIENCE

Penguin eggshell membranes reflect homogeneity of mercury in the marine food web surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) Rebecka L. Brasso et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Collapse of South Africa's penguins in the early 21st century

(2011) RJM Crawford et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Reliability of flipper-banded penguins as indicators of climate change

(2011) Claire Saraux et al.   NATURE

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion--One-Third for the Birds

(2011) P. M. Cury et al.   SCIENCE

Surviving off junk: low-energy prey dominates the diet of African penguinsSpheniscus demersusat Mercury Island, Namibia, between 1996 and 2009

(2010) K Ludynia et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Climate change and the Antarctic marine ecosystem: an essay on management implications

(2010) P.N. Trathan et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Spatial overlap between foraging seabirds and trawl fisheries: implications for the effectiveness of a marine protected area at Golfo San Jorge, Argentina

(2010) PABLO YORIO et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Effects of double bands on Magellanic Penguins

(2010) P. Dee Boersma et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Feather-Loss Disorder in African and Magellanic Penguins

(2010) Olivia J. Kane et al.   WATERBIRDS

Population trends and conservation status of the Northern Rockhopper Penguin Eudyptes moseleyi at Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island

(2009) RICHARD CUTHBERT et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Penguin responses to climate change in the Southern Ocean

(2009) JAUME FORCADA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seabirds as indicators of aquatic ecosystem conditions: A case for gathering multiple proxies of seabird health

(2009) Mark L. Mallory et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the decline of an emperor penguin population

(2009) Stéphanie Jenouvrier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rebuilding Global Fisheries

(2009) B. Worm et al.   SCIENCE

Influences of the abundance and distribution of prey on African penguinsSpheniscus demersusoff western South Africa

(2008) RJM Crawford et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Mass on arrival of rockhopper penguins at Marion Island correlated with breeding success

(2008) RJM Crawford et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Population assessments of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) breeding at an important Antarctic tourist site, Goudier Island, Port Lockroy, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica

(2008) P.N. Trathan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Penguins as Marine Sentinels

(2008) P. Dee Boersma   BIOSCIENCE

Has the fishery contributed to a major shift in the distribution of South African sardine?

(2008) J. C. Coetzee et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

King penguin population threatened by Southern Ocean warming

(2008) C. Le Bohec et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   SCIENCE