Timing is everything: Flexible phenology and shifting selection in a colonial seabird

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 376-387

  Reed, Thomas E ^a,d   Warzybok, Pete ^b   Wilson, Alistair J ^a   Bradley, Russell W ^b   Wanless, Sarah ^c   Sydeman, William J ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e FARALLON INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioural response; Climate change; Environmental stochasticity; Nonlinear reaction norm; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ECOSYSTEM; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

ALCIDAE; ANIMALIA; URIA AALGE;

EID: 59449087182     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01503.x     Document Type: Article

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