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Antarctic fur seals threatened by climate change

After severe exploitation in early 20th century,  Antarctic fur seals populations had fully recovered – until now.  The Antarctic is changing:

In their report, the researchers tie the declining performance of the population directly to the increasingly unreliable provision of krill.

In particularly bad years when there are few krill at South Georgia, all the predators that depend on them will suffer poor breeding success, and the beaches will be littered with dead pups and penguin chicks.

via BBC News – Antarctic fur seals feel climate impacts.

Filed Under: Planet Earth Tagged With: Antarctic, Fur seals, South Georgia

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