Climate warming, ecological mismatch at arrival and population decline in migratory birds

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1707, 2011, Pages 835-842

  Saino, Nicola ^a   Ambrosini, Roberto ^b   Rubolini, Diego ^a   Von Hardenberg, Jost ^c   Provenzale, Antonello ^c   Hüppop, Kathrin ^d   Hüppop, Ommo ^d   Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^e   Lehikoinen, Esa ^f   Rainio, Kalle ^e   Romano, Maria ^a   Sokolov, Leonid ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^g ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate change; Conservation; Ecological mismatch; Migration; Population trend

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIRD; BREEDING SITE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLOBAL WARMING; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PHENOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AVES;

EID: 79952354192     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1778     Document Type: Conference Paper

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