Contrasting effects of climate on juvenile body size in a Southern Hemisphere passerine bird

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2929-2941

  Kruuk, Loeske E B ^a,b   Osmond, Helen L ^a   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Malurus cyaneus; Australia; Body mass; Climate change; Heatwave; Maternal effects; Maximum temperature; Rainfall; Superb fairy wren

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; JUVENILE; MATERNAL EFFECT; PASSERINE; RAINFALL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WILD POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MALURUS CYANEUS; PASSERIFORMES; TROGLODYTINAE;

RAIN;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; SONGBIRD; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RAIN; SONGBIRDS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84937525751     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12926     Document Type: Article

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