Preferred Habitat of Breeding Birds May Be Compromised by Climate Change: Unexpected Effects of an Exceptionally Cold, Wet Spring

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Whitehouse, Michael J ^a   Harrison, Nancy M ^a   Mackenzie, Julia ^a   Hinsley, Shelley A ^b  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIRD; BREEDING; BREEDING SUCCESS; CATERPILLAR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOREST; HATCHLING; MIXED DECIDUOUS FOREST; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES HABITAT; SPRING; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; WOOD;

EID: 84884260204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075536     Document Type: Article

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