Large increase in nest size linked to climate change: an indicator of life history, senescence and condition

Oecologia

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 913-921

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accipiter gentilis; Climate change; Extended phenotype; Goshawk; Senescence; Signal

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; LIFE HISTORY; NEARCTIC ECOZONE; NEST STRUCTURE; PHENOTYPE; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL; WEIGHT;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; RAPTORES;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIRD; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLUTCH SIZE; FALCONIFORMES; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84945462000     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3385-4     Document Type: Article

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