Journal
ANTARCTIC SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 289-295Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102001000414
Keywords
abandoned colonies; Adelie penguin; chinstrap penguin; occupation history; radiocarbon dates
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Sixty-three radiocarbon dates on organic remains from 21 abandoned colonies of chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) and Adelie (P. adeliae) penguins on 12 islands in the Antarctic Peninsula region are evaluated for determining the occupation history of penguins in this region. This record also provides a means for assessing sea-level change, glacial advances and retreats, and population responses by penguins to these events. All conventional dates were corrected for the marine-carbon reservoir effect by applying a DeltaR=700 +/- 50 BP and marine calibration curves. The 63 calibrated dates give 2 sigma ranges (95% confidence intervals) from modern to 5990 yr BP. These dates indicate progressively older occupations from north to south along the Antarctic Peninsula. No sites older than approximately 540 BP occur in the northern peninsula, either because they have not yet been found or older sites have been destroyed by solifluction and glacial scouring. Three dates from one locality near Rothera Point, Adelaide Island, also were calibrated with a DeltaR=750 +/- 50 and 800 +/- 50 BP. No difference was found between calibrated dates using these two other DeltaR values, indicating that local corrections for variation in upwelling intensity may not be necessary.
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