Avian population consequences of climate change are most severe for long-distance migrants in seasonal habitats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1685, 2010, Pages 1259-1266

  Both, Christiaan ^a   Van Turnhout, Chris A M ^b,c,d   Bijlsma, Rob G ^a   Siepel, Henk ^c,d,e   Van Strien, Arco J ^f,g   Foppen, Ruud P B ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Animal Ecology ^*  (Germany)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^g European Bird Census Council   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Geographical variation; Habitat seasonality; Migration; Population trend; Trophic mismatch

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT QUALITY; INSECTIVORE; MARSH; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; SEASONALITY; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

NETHERLANDS;

AVES;

EID: 77951484087     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1525     Document Type: Article

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