Mercedes Santos

TL;DR: Tracking data from 17 marine predator species in the Southern Ocean is used to identify Areas of Ecological Significance, the protection of which could help to mitigate increasing pressures on Southern Ocean ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the vast literature on Southern Ocean top predators, focusing on the most recent syntheses and provided an overview on the key current and emerging pressures faced by these animals as a result of both natural and human causes, recognizing the overarching impact that environmental changes driven by climate change have on the ecology of these species.

TL;DR: In the Southern Ocean, the at-sea distributions of most predators of Antarctic krill are poorly known, primarily because tracking studies have only been undertaken on a restricted set of species, and then only at a limited number of sites.

TL;DR: Results from stable isotopes suggest that Adélie penguins might be foraging in southern localities compared to their congener during the inter-breeding period, and improve the understanding of life strategies and predator–prey interactions essentially out of the reproductive period.

TL;DR: A method to estimate nest‐level breeding phenology and reproductive success of colonial pygoscelid penguins using photographs from time‐lapse cameras is described and appears well‐suited to operationalize regional time-lapse camera networks.