Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change

Biological Reviews

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 928-946

  Knudsen, Endre ^a   Lindén, Andreas ^a,b   Both, Christiaan ^c   Jonzén, Niclas ^d   Pulido, Francisco ^e   Saino, Nicola ^f   Sutherland, William J ^g   Bach, Lars A ^d,p   Coppack, Timothy ^h,q   Ergon, Torbjørn ^a   Gienapp, Phillip ^b   Gill, Jennifer A ⁱ   Gordo, Oscar ^e   Hedenström, Anders ^d   Lehikoinen, Esa ^j   Marra, Peter P ^k   Møller, Anders P ^l   Nilsson, Anna L K ^a   Péron, Guillaume ^m   Ranta, Esa ^b   Rubolini, Diego ^f   Sparks, Tim H ⁿ   Spina, Fernando ^o   Studds, Colin E ^k   Sæther, Stein A ^a   Tryjanowski, Piotr ⁿ   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^k SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^m CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

ⁿ POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^o Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^p AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^q Institute of Applied Ecology IfAÖ GmbH   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Annual life cycle; Bird migration; Climate change; Endogenous control; Integrative biology; Match mismatch; Microevolutionary change; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Population trends

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 80054006004     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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