Have historical climate changes affected gentoo penguin (pygoscelis papua) populations in Antarctica?
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Peña M., Fabiola
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Poulin, Elie
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Dantas, Gisele P.
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González Acuña, Daniel
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Petry, María Virginia
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Vianna, Juliana
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2015-01-05T18:45:45Z
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2015-01-05T18:45:45Z
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2014
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PLOS One April 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 4 | e95375
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095375
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/119888
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Abstract
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The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) has been suffering an increase in its atmospheric temperature during the last 50 years,
mainly associated with global warming. This increment of temperature trend associated with changes in sea-ice dynamics
has an impact on organisms, affecting their phenology, physiology and distribution range. For instance, rapid demographic
changes in Pygoscelis penguins have been reported over the last 50 years in WAP, resulting in population expansion of sub-
Antarctic Gentoo penguin (P. papua) and retreat of Antarctic Adelie penguin (P. adeliae). Current global warming has been
mainly associated with human activities; however these climate trends are framed in a historical context of climate changes,
particularly during the Pleistocene, characterized by an alternation between glacial and interglacial periods. During the last
maximal glacial (LGM,21,000 BP) the ice sheet cover reached its maximum extension on the West Antarctic Peninsula
(WAP), causing local extinction of Antarctic taxa, migration to lower latitudes and/or survival in glacial refugia. We studied
the HRVI of mtDNA and the nuclear intron bfibint7 of 150 individuals of the WAP to understand the demographic history
and population structure of P. papua. We found high genetic diversity, reduced population genetic structure and a
signature of population expansion estimated around 13,000 BP, much before the first paleocolony fossil records
(,1,100 BP). Our results suggest that the species may have survived in peri-Antarctic refugia such as South Georgia and
North Sandwich islands and recolonized the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands after the ice sheet retreat.
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Funding was provided by: Instituto Ecologı´a y Biodiversidad, Instituto Anta´rtico Chileno (projects: M_04-10, T_27-10, G_06-11), Corporacio´n Nacional
de Ciencia y Tecnologı´a (Master grant), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, the National Institute of Science and Technology Antarctic Environmental
Research (INCT-APA) (CNPq Process nu574018/2008-5), FAPERJ (E-26/170.023/2008), FAPERGS (process 09/0574-7), WCS (processes 2008-5 and 2009-5), the
Brazilian Ministries of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), of Environmental (MMA), Inter-Ministry Commission for Sea Research (CIRM) and the University
of Vale do Rio dos Sinos – Unisinos.
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en
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Estonian Biocentre and Tartu University, Gyaneshwer Chaubey