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This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFC1406906).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, People’s Republic of China

    Xintong Chen & Xianglan Li

  2. University Corporation for Polar Research, Beijing, 100875, People’s Republic of China

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Chen, X., Li, X. Reply to “Comment on lagged response of Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) abundance to environmental variability in the Ross Sea, Antarctica” by Virginia Morandini. Polar Biol 45, 773–775 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-022-03004-9

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