Climate change and breeding parameters of great and blue tits throughout the western Palaearctic

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Author: Sanz, Juan José
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2002
• Subjects: Climate change; Clutch size; Parus caeruleus; Parus major; timing of breeding; winter NAO-index; Parus; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/110744; https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00496.x

Increasing evidence suggests that climate change has consequences on avian breeding phenology. Here, variations in laying date and clutch size of great tit Parus major and blue tit Parus caeruleus within and between breeding populations through the western Palaearctic are examined in relation to cli...