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1. The management of non-indigenous species is not without its complications. In Bergstromet al.’s (2009) study, we demonstrated that feral cats Felis catus on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island were exerting top-downcontrol on the feral rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus population…
Arctic ecosystems and global climate are closely related. This paper studies the distributions and the coupling relationship between Chlorophyll a (Chl a) and aerosol optical thickness (AOD) in Greenland Sea (10 degrees W - 10 degrees E, 70 degrees N - 85 degrees N)…
The foraging strategies of king penguins from … Heard and Macquarie islands were compared using satellite … telemetry, time-depth recorders and diet samples. Trip durations were 16.8±3.6 days and 14.8±4.1 days … at Macquarie and Heard islands, respectively. At Macquarie … Island…
The recent distributional history of two Macquarie … Island vascular plant species, Carex trifida, Poa … litorosa, and the Heard Island vascular plant, Ranunculus … crassipes is examined. C. trifida is known from only … one small population on the north west coast of Macquarie … Island.
Historically, king penguin populations on Macquarie Island have suffered greatly from human exploitation. Two large colonies on the island were drastically reduced to a single small colony as a result of harvesting for the blubber oil industry. However…