SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2017
The effect of climate change on the duration of avian breeding seasons: a meta-analysis.
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- The effect of climate change on the duration of avian breeding seasons: a meta-analysis.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Pooled it
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- Climate and ecology predict latitudinal trends in sexual selection inferred from avian mating systems.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Climate change reduces the tension of conflicting selection pressures on breeding date in a passerine bird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Climate and land use/land cover changes increasing habitat overlap among endangered crested ibis and sympatric egret/heron species.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Global warming modifies the seasonal distribution of clutches on a Mediterranean great tit population.International journal of biometeorology · 2023Article
- Variation in breeding phenology in response to climate change in two passerine species.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Differential changes in life cycle-event phenology provide a window into regional population declines.Biology letters · 2022Article
- Climate warming induced a stretch of the breeding season and an increase of second clutches in a passerine breeding at its altitudinal limits.Current zoology · 2022Article
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- Flyway-scale analysis reveals that the timing of migration in wading birds is becoming later.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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Abstract
Many bird species are advancing the timing of their egg-laying in response to a warming climate. Little is known, however, of whether this advancement affects the respective length of the breeding seasons. A meta-analysis of 65 long-term studies of 54 species from the Northern Hemisphere has revealed that within the last 45 years an average population has lengthened the season by 1.4 days per decade, which was independent from changes in mean laying dates. Multi-brooded birds have prolonged their seasons by 4 days per decade, while single-brooded have shortened by 2 days. Changes in season lengths covaried with local climate changes: warming was correlated with prolonged seasons in multi-brooded species, but not in single-brooders. This might be a result of higher ecological flexibility of multi-brooded birds, whereas single brooders may have problems with synchronizing their reproduction with the peak of food resources. Sedentary species and short-distance migrants prolonged their breeding seasons more than long-distance migrants, which probably cannot track conditions at their breeding grounds. We conclude that as long as climate warming continues without major changes in ecological conditions, multi-brooded or sedentary species will probably increase their reproductive output, while the opposite effect may occur in single-brooded or migratory birds.
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