Effects of extreme weather on two sympatric australian passerine bird species

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1723, 2017, Pages

  Gardner, Janet L ^a   Rowley, Eleanor ^b   De Rebeira, Perry ^b   De Rebeira, Alma ^b   Brouwer, Lyanne ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Netherlands Institute of Ecology NIOO KNAW ^*  (Australia)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carry over costs; Climate change; Extreme climatic events; Meliphagoidea; Passerine birds; Size dependent mortality

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INVENTORY; MORTALITY; PASSERINE; SIZE STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY; WEATHER;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; MALURUS ELEGANS; PASSERIFORMES; SERICORNIS FRONTALIS; TROGLODYTINAE;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SONGBIRD; SYMPATRY; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; SEASONS; SONGBIRDS; SYMPATRY; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85019163566     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0148     Document Type: Article

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