Temperature has a causal effect on avian timing of reproduction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2323-2331

  Visser, Marcel E ^a   Holleman, Leonard J M ^a   Caro, Samuel P ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Birds; Climate change; Great tit; Temperature; Timing of reproduction

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; EGG BANK; EGG PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAYING DATE; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; FOWL; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 66749118458     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0213     Document Type: Article

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