Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration: Evolutionary versus plastic changes

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-28

  Charmantier, Anne ^a   Gienapp, Phillip ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bird; Climate change; Evolution; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Selection; Timing of breeding; Timing of migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891926639     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12126     Document Type: Article

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