A study proves that the climate changes influence the survival of this seabird.
Environmental changes threaten the survival of top predators in Antarctica, as the Albatross, was one of the findings of an international research led by Portuguese scientist, Jose Xavier, researcher at the Institute of Marine Research at the University of Coimbra. The Polar research project is funded by the British Antarctic Survey and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), had the invaluable help of a team of eight scientists from the UK, France and Germany, which showed top predators are not able to find enough food in a year when the Antarctic Ocean is unusually warm. Thus, their offspring die of hunger, which threatens the survival of this species. To the expert that most surprising result is the inability of these birds to find alternative food when faced with increasing temperature of ocean waters, which leads them to seek nourishment for their offspring even further without apparent success. This lack of flexibility of the top predators in the Antarctic can have a major impact in their future, in terms of survival of the species, if it continues to increase these anomalous years in terms of environmental changes.
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