Climate change and population declines in a long-distance migratory bird

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 81-83

  Both, Christiaan ^a,b   Bouwhuis, Sandra ^a,b,c   Lessells, C M ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS; CLIMATOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

BREEDING BIRDS; MIGRATORY BIRD; POPULATION DECLINES; LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATORY BIRD; NESTLINGS; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION CONSEQUENCES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIRD; BREEDING; BREEDING SITE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD SUPPLY; MIGRATION; NESTLING; POPULATION DECLINE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PHENOLOGY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MIGRATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PIED FLYCATCHER; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; FOOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NETHERLANDS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SONGBIRD; TIME; POPULATION;

AVES; FICEDULA; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FOOD; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; TIME FACTORS;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646930059     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04539     Document Type: Article

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