Winter climate affects subsequent breeding success of common eiders

Global Change Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1355-1365

  Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^a   Kilpi, M ^b   Ost M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Clutch size; Common eider; Condition; Immune defense; Migration; NAO index; Spring arrival; The Baltic Sea; Timing ice break up

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE EFFECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MIGRATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PHENOLOGY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EURASIA; EUROPE;

ANATIDAE; AVES; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 33745192795     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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