Fig. 6: Vertebrate fauna turnover at Cape Hallett. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: Vertebrate fauna turnover at Cape Hallett.

From: Sedimentary DNA insights into Holocene Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) populations and ecology in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

Fig. 6: Vertebrate fauna turnover at Cape Hallett.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

SedaDNA records a local change from southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) to Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) dominance, coincident with the formation of ornithogenic soil and an increasing abundance of sedimentary eggshell fragments.

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