Quantifying climate change impacts emphasises the importance of managing regional threats in the endangered Yellow-eyed penguin.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is a global issue with effects that are difficult to manage at a regional scale. Yet more often than not climate factors are just some of multiple stressors affecting species on a population level. Non-climatic factors-especially those of anthropogenic origins-may play equally important roles with regard to impacts on species and are often more feasible to address. Here we assess the influence of climate change on population trends of the endangered Yellow-eyed penguin (Megadyptes antipodes) over the last 30 years, using a Bayesian model. Sea surface temperature (SST) proved to be the dominating factor influencing survival of both adult birds and fledglings. Increasing SST since the mid-1990s was accompanied by a reduction in survival rates and population decline. The

SUBMITTER: Mattern T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5436559 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature