Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation, and associated 95% confidence intervals, between penguin abundances and calculated connectivity metrics within each region illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4.

From: Quantifying Antarctic krill connectivity across the West Antarctic Peninsula and its role in large-scale Pygoscelis penguin population dynamics

Penguin species

Connectivity metric

Transit time

Time in region (released within)

Time in region (released outside)

Adélie

− 0.4 (− 0.9 to 0.7)

0.7 (− 0.5 to 1)

0.7 (− 0.5 to 1.0)

Chinstrap

0.5 (− 0.6 to 1.0)

− 0.9 (− 1.0 to − 0.1)

− 0.6 (− 1.0 to 0.6)

Gentoo

0.2 (− 0.8 to 0.9)

0.1 (− 0.9 to 0.9)

0.4 (− 0.7 to 0.9)

All

− 0.4 (− 0.9 to 0.6)

− 0.3 (− 0.9 to 0.7)

− 0.2 (− 1.0 to 0.9)

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