The role of food, weather and climate in limiting the abundance of animals

• Published in: Biological Reviews
• Main Author: White, T. C. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Achilles Heel; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2008.00041.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-185X.2008.00041.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2008.00041.x

Abstract More and more studies are demonstrating that populations of animals ‐ from herbivores to top predators, vertebrates and invertebrates ‐ are limited by their food, and that the availability of this food is dictated by the weather. Satellite monitoring is revealing how cyclic and quasi‐cyclic...