Climate change and the risks associated with delayed breeding in a tropical wild bird population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1722, 2011, Pages 3184-3190

  Senapathi, Deepa ^a   Nicoll, Malcolm A C ^a   Teplitsky, Celine ^b   Jones, Carl G ^c,d   Norris, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

Breeding phenology; Climate change; Mauritius kestrel; Tropical island endemic

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLOWERING; HABITAT LOSS; NESTING SUCCESS; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; STOCHASTICITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FALCO PUNCTATUS;

EID: 80053208476     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0212     Document Type: Article

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