Climate change has affected the breeding date of tree swallows throughout North America

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1437, 1999, Pages 2487-2490

  Dunn, Peter O ^a   Winkler, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Global warming; Laying date; Tachycineta bicolor; Timing of reproduction

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAYING DATE; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE; EGG PRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

TACHYCINETA BICOLOR;

EID: 0033596249     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0950     Document Type: Article

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