Climatic conditions cause complex patterns of covariation between demographic traits in a long-lived raptor

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 702-711

  Herfindal, Ivar ^a   van de Pol, Martijn ^b,c   Nielsen, Jan T ^d   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Møller, Anders P ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^d Espedal 4   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Climatic variation; Cohort effects; Demographic covariance; Environmental stochasticity; Goshawk

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; COLUMBA; RAPTORES;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE; DENMARK; DIET; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAWK; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; COLUMBIDAE; DENMARK; DIET; FEMALE; HAWKS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84928188360     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12318     Document Type: Article

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