{"id":1956,"date":"2014-06-12T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2014-06-12T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:48:59","slug":"which-penguins-beat-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/which-penguins-beat-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Which penguins beat the heat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1927\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64c2a30190733ba99c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1927\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64c2a30190733ba99c.png\" alt=\"Gentoo penguins nesting at Neko Harbour, Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo credit: Gemma Clucas)\" width=\"432\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64c2a30190733ba99c.png 432w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64c2a30190733ba99c-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gentoo penguins nesting at Neko Harbour, Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo credit: Gemma Clucas)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to a new study, the Gentoo penguin is benefiting from climate change, while the chinstrap and Ad\u00e9lie penguins are not. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers used DNA analysis to assess the historic demographics and population structure of these species, and found that Gentoo penguins are climate change \u2018winners\u2019 and are expanding their range southward, while the two other populations are in decline. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The differences between species could be tied to food sources; both the chinstrap and Ad\u00e9lie penguins depend on krill, which is also declining due to climate change, while the Gentoo penguin is more of a generalist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Images and video available.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2014\/140513\/srep05024\/full\/srep05024.html\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published <span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Scientific Reports<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 12, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/oes\/postgraduate\/research_students\/gvc1g11.page\" target=\"_blank\">Gemma Clucas<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Southampton, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, the Gentoo penguin is benefiting from climate change, while the chinstrap and Ad\u00e9lie penguins are not. Researchers used DNA analysis to assess the historic demographics and population structure of these species, and found that Gentoo penguins are climate change \u2018winners\u2019 and are expanding their range southward, while the two other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,170,113,31,215,917],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-evolution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase64c2a30190733ba99c.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-vy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}