A 1,500-year record of Antarctic seal populations in response to climate change

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• 作者：Liguang Sun ; Xiaodong Liu ; Xuebin Yin ; Renbin Zhu ; Zhouqing Xie and Yuhong Wang
• 刊名：Polar Biology
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：July 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：27
• 期：8
• 页码：495-501
• 全文大小：379 KB
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Ecology
  Oceanography
  Microbiology
  Plant Sciences
  Zoology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-2056

文摘

The historical seal populations at King George Island, Antarctica, for the past 1,500 years, have beenestimated from the seal-hair abundance, bio-element concentrations, total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) in one terrestrial sediment sequence influenced by seal excrement. Prior to human interference, the seal populations exhibited dramatic fluctuations with two peaks during 750–500 and 1400–1100 years before present (yr B.P.) and two troughs during 1100–750 and 500–200 yr B.P. A tentative comparison of the seal populations and historical climates in the Antarctic Peninsula region suggests that the seal populations may be linked to climate-related factors such as sea-ice coverage and atmospheric temperature.