The anatomy of a phenological mismatch: interacting consumer demand and resources characteristics determine the consequences of mismatching

• Main Authors: Wilde, Luke R., Simmonds, Josiah E., Swift, Rose J., Senner, Nathan R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: mismatch; climate change; Limosa haemastica; Bayesian hierarchical model; ontogeny; Luke; Beluga; Beluga*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4298755; https://zenodo.org/record/4298755

Climate change has caused shifts in seasonally recurring biological events and the decoupling of consume-resource pairs in time – that is ‘mismatching’. Despite its theorized risks, empirical evidence for the fitness consequences of mismatching has been mixed and our understanding of when mismatchin...