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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Parus; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4868293/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27182711; 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...