Problems with using large-scale oceanic climate indices to compare climatic sensitivities across populations and species

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 249-255

  van de Pol, Martijn ^a   Brouwer, Lyanne ^a   Brooker, Lesley C ^b   Brooker, Michael G ^b   Colombelli Négrel, Diane ^c   Hall, Michelle L ^d,e   Langmore, Naomi E ^a   Peters, Anne ^e,f   Pruett Jones, Stephen ^g   Russell, Eleanor M ^b   Webster, Michael S ^h   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Flinders Univ ^*  (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^h Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD;

AUSTRALIA;

MALURUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84875372003     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.00143.x     Document Type: Article

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