With the special contribution of the following experts:

Esteban Frere (Univ. Nac. de la Patagonia Austral, CONICET-Argentina, WCS y BirdLife International)
Alberto Piola (Serv. Hidrografía Naval, Univ. de Buenos Aires y CONICET-Argentina)
Flavio Quintana (CONICET-Argentina y WCS)
Frances Taylor (BirdLife International, UK)

Based on the data provided by the following authors:

Albareda, D.A. (Jardín Zoológico de Buenos Aires y Aquamarina-PRICTMA)
Arata, J. (Instituto Antártico Chileno, Chile)
Boersma, D. (University of Washington & WCS)
Campagna, C. (CONICET-Argentina y WCS)
Croxall, J. (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Fedak, M. (Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews, Escocia, UK)
Frere, E. (Univ. Nac. de la Patagonia Austral, CONICET-Argentina, WCS y BirdLife International)
Gandini, P. (Admin. de Parques Nacionales y Univ. Nac. de la Patagonia Austral, CONICET-Argentina)
González Carman, V. (INIDEP, CONICET-Argentina y Aquamarina-PRICTMA)
González-Solís, J. (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Huin, N. (BirdLife International, UK)
Lewis, M. (CONICET-Argentina)
Marín, M. R. (CONICET-Argentina)
Moreno, C. (Universidad Austral de Chile)
Nicholls, D. (Chisholm Institute, Australia)
Phillips, R. (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Piola, A. (Serv. Hidrografía Naval, Univ. de Buenos Aires y CONICET-Argentina)
Pütz, K. (Antarctic Research Trust, Alemania)
Quintana, F. (CONICET-Argentina y WCS)
Raya Rey, A. (CONICET-Argentina)
Robertson, C. J. R. (Department of Conservation, New Zealand)
Robertson, G. (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia)
Schiavini, A. (CONICET-Argentina y WCS)
Staniland, I. (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Thompson, D. (Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews, Escocia, UK)
Trathan, P. (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Wilson, R. (Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Swansea University, UK)
Yorio, P. (CONICET-Argentina y WCS)

Researchers and photographers that contributed images:

Gregorio Bigatti, Pablo Bordino, Ignacio Bruno, Claudio Campagna, William Conway, Sarah Crofts, Dan Costa, Chris Elvidge, Valeria Falabella, Chris Gilbert, Jacob González-Solís, Diego González Zevallos, Guillermo Harris, Jim Large, Dan Linehan, Anthony Martin, David Nicholls, Richard Phillips, Klemens Pütz, Flavio Quintana, Revista Puerto, Graham Robertson, Mark Royo Celano, Iain Staniland, Claudio Suter, John-Frederick Thye, Marcela Uhart, Carlos Verona, Oscar Wheeler, Eugenia Zavattieri y Victoria Zavattieri.
Index image: Based on King Penguin photograph from Flavio Quintana. Design: Eugenia Zavattieri

Acknowledgements:

The editors would like to thank their home organisations, Wildlife Conservation Society and BirdLife International, for the support provided to this project.

We are also thankful to the Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation (LCAOF) for the permanent support it has given to the Sea & Sky Project (WCS-CONICET), and particularly for funding this work. The Atlas has also received the backing of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), through the National Science Foundation (GEO 0452325), the Pew Institute for Ocean Science and the Mitsubishi Foundation.

Our thanks to ESRI and Aeroterra S.A. for their support in the acquisition and maintenance of the software.

Very special thanks to IMPRONTA IT SA for the development and updating of GIS tools donated to WCS for this Atlas. Particularly to Fernando Aliaga for his willingness and professionalism.

Our thanks also to all those researchers who provided the scientific information that supports the Atlas, to the researchers and photographers that contributed images. To Frances Taylor for her work in the methodological development, to Alberto Piola for his valuable contribution with the fundraising and to the team of people who have worked on the general editing (V. Zavattieri), translation (L. Wheeler), and web design (Gulavisual).

Our most sincere thanks go to Dr. William Conway (Senior Conservationist, Wildlife Conservation Society).