Antarctic birds breed later in response to climate change
In the northern hemisphere, there is compelling evidence for climate-related advances of spring events, but no such long-term biological time series exist for the southern hemisphere. We have studied a unique data set of dates of first arrival and laying of first eggs over a 55-year period for the e...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:1458863 2023-05-15T14:05:03+02:00 Antarctic birds breed later in response to climate change Barbraud, Christophe Weimerskirch, Henri 2006-04-18 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1458863 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16601100 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510397103 en eng National Academy of Sciences http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1458863 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16601100 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510397103 © 2006 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA Biological Sciences Text 2006 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510397103 2013-08-31T01:24:23Z In the northern hemisphere, there is compelling evidence for climate-related advances of spring events, but no such long-term biological time series exist for the southern hemisphere. We have studied a unique data set of dates of first arrival and laying of first eggs over a 55-year period for the entire community of Antarctic seabirds in East Antarctica. The records over this long period show a general unexpected tendency toward later arrival and laying, an inverse trend to those observed in the northern hemisphere. Overall, species now arrive at their colonies 9.1 days later, on average, and lay eggs an average of 2.1 days later than in the early 1950s. Furthermore, these delays are linked to a decrease in sea ice extent that has occurred in eastern Antarctica, which underlies the contrasted effects of global climate change on species in Antarctica. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica East Antarctica Sea ice PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic East Antarctica Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 16 6248 6251 |
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In the northern hemisphere, there is compelling evidence for climate-related advances of spring events, but no such long-term biological time series exist for the southern hemisphere. We have studied a unique data set of dates of first arrival and laying of first eggs over a 55-year period for the entire community of Antarctic seabirds in East Antarctica. The records over this long period show a general unexpected tendency toward later arrival and laying, an inverse trend to those observed in the northern hemisphere. Overall, species now arrive at their colonies 9.1 days later, on average, and lay eggs an average of 2.1 days later than in the early 1950s. Furthermore, these delays are linked to a decrease in sea ice extent that has occurred in eastern Antarctica, which underlies the contrasted effects of global climate change on species in Antarctica. |
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