Impact of climate change and prey abundance on nesting success of a top predator, the goshawk

Oecologia

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 283-293

  Lehikoinen, Aleksi ^a   Lindén, Andreas ^b   Byholm, Patrik ^c,d   Ranta, Esa ^c   Saurola, Pertti ^a   Valkama, Jari ^a   Kaitala, Veijo ^c   Lindén, Harto ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NOVIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Future projections; Global warming; Predator prey interaction; Reproductive output; Timing of breeding

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUTCH SIZE; GLOBAL WARMING; NESTING SUCCESS; PHENOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FINLAND;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; AVES; TETRAONIDAE;

EID: 84872129751     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2411-z     Document Type: Article

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