Recent shift in climate relationship enables prediction of the timing of bird breeding

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Hinsley, Shelley A., Bellamy, Paul E., Hill, Ross A., Ferns, Peter N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Ecology and Environment; Zoology; Parus; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514200/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514200/1/N514200JA.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155241

Large-scale climate processes influence many aspects of ecology including breeding phenology, reproductive success and survival across a wide range of taxa. Some effects are direct, for example, in temperate-zone birds, ambient temperature is an important cue enabling breeding effort to coincide wit...