Can macaroni penguins keep up with climate- and fishing-induced changes in krill?

@article{Cresswell2008CanMP,
  title={Can macaroni penguins keep up with climate- and fishing-induced changes in krill?},
  author={Katherine A. Cresswell and John R Wiedenmann and Marc Mangel},
  journal={Polar Biology},
  year={2008},
  volume={31},
  pages={641-649}
}
Macaroni penguins have evolved to cope with the highly variable conditions of the Southern Ocean. However, changes in prey supply and patchiness potentially associated with changes in climate and krill fishing activity may be occurring too rapidly for the penguins to adapt. We use a stochastic dynamic programming model to examine how changes in both the mean and patchiness of krill supply may affect the foraging decisions, and therefore breeding success, of female macaroni penguins at South… 
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