ArticleEvolutionary applications2015
Multidimensional environmental influences on timing of breeding in a tree swallow population facing climate change.
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- Reproductive Drivers of Temporal Telomere Dynamics in Female Tree Swallows.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Environmental and Genetic Determinants of Early-Life Telomere Length in Tree Swallows.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Phenological Plasticity and Its Temperature-Related Drivers in Common Songbirds Across Europe.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Quantifying long-term phenological patterns of aerial insectivores roosting in the Great Lakes region using weather surveillance radar.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Interacting effects of cold snaps, rain, and agriculture on the fledging success of a declining aerial insectivore.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2022Article
- Nonideal nest box selection by tree swallows breeding in farmlands: Evidence for an ecological trap?Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Natural and human-induced environmental changes and their effects on adaptive potential of wild animal populations.Evolutionary applications · 2020Article
- The onset in spring and the end in autumn of the thermal and vegetative growing season affect calving time and reproductive success in reindeer.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change: the importance of cue variation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Offspring mass variation in tree swallows: A case of bet-hedging?Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) · 2019Article
- A range-wide domino effect and resetting of the annual cycle in a migratory songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Will a changing climate affect hatching success in cavity-nesting birds: A case study with Eastern Bluebirds (Science progressArticle
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Abstract
Most phenological traits are extremely sensitive to current climate change, and advances in the timing of important life-history events have been observed in many species. In birds, phenotypic plasticity in response to temperature is thought to be the main mechanism underlying yearly adjustment in the timing of breeding. However, other factors could be important and interact to affect the levels of plastic responses between and/or within-individuals. Here, we use long-term individual-based data on tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) to identify the spatial and environmental drivers affecting plasticity in laying date and to assess their importance at both population and individual levels. We found that laying date has advanced by 4.2 days over 10 years, and that it was mainly influenced by latitude and an interaction between spring temperature and breeder density. Analyses of individual plasticity showed that increases in temperature, but not in breeder density, resulted in within-individual advances in laying date. Our results suggest that females can adjust their laying date as a function of temperature, but that this adjustment will be partly constrained in habitats with lower breeder densities. Such potential constraint is especially worrying for the broad array of species already declining as a result of climate change.
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