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Extreme heat events are killing Gentoo penguins in Argentina, but the birds are shifting their breeding season earlier and therefore reducing the impact of potentially deadly hot days




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Rare upside of climate-induced phenological changes: Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) avoid heat events at Martillo Isl., Tierra del Fuego, Argentina 

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Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) adult with two chicks at Martillo Island, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

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Credit: Sabrina Harris, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)


Article URL: https://plos.io/42nzbeT

Article title: Rare upside of climate-induced phenological changes: Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) avoid heat events at Martillo Isl., Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Author countries: Argentina, UK.

Funding: ARR received funding from the Wildlife Conservation Society representación Argentina (https://argentina.wcs.org - $1000), ARR received funding from the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (https://www.argentina.gob.ar - ANPCyT, PICT 2016-0267 $4000) for their research. TH was supported by Quark Expeditions ltd. (https://www.quarkexpeditions.com) and John Ellerman Foundation (https://ellerman.org.uk). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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