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© 2021 Walker, Meijer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

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About the Authors: Samuel James Walker Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing * E-mail: [email protected] Affiliation: Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3073-6292 Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing Affiliations Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America Introduction Seabirds are one of the most at-risk bird groups with approximately half of all seabirds species in decline [1–3], and 110 species (31%) regarded as threatened by the IUCN red list. To further explore past and present variation in Atlantic Puffin body size and its link to environmental conditions, we measured skeletal specimens of modern F. arctica and archaeological F. arctica remains from two Norwegian sites. Reprinted from d-maps [29] under a CC BY licence, with permission from [d-maps], original copyright [2020]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246888.g001 Methods Modern comparative material Modern puffin specimens examined for this study are part of the Osteological collections at the Bergen Natural History Museum and were inspected on site by SJW and HJMM. [...]a specimen labelled as F. a. arctica from Spitsbergen was regarded as F. a. naumanni (BM 10341).

Details

Title
Size variation in mid-Holocene North Atlantic Puffins indicates a dynamic response to climate change
Author
Walker, Samuel James; Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer
First page
e0246888
Section
Research Article
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Feb 2021
Publisher
Public Library of Science
e-ISSN
19326203
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2492990972
Copyright
© 2021 Walker, Meijer. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.