Responses to climate change in avian migration time - Microevolution versus phenotypic plasticity

Climate Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 25-35

  Gienapp, Phillip ^a   Leimu, Roosa ^a,b   Merilä, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian migration; Climate change; Evolution; Haldane; Meta analysis; NAO; Phenology

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARRIVAL DATE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; META-ANALYSIS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 44249117425     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00712     Document Type: Article

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