Birds and Climate Change
- 1st Edition - June 28, 2006
- Latest edition
- Editors: Luo Yiqi, Anders Pape Moller, Wolfgang Fiedler
- Language: English
Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. Birds are excellent model organisms, with a very active metabolism, they are highly sensitive to… Read more
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Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. Birds are excellent model organisms, with a very active metabolism, they are highly sensitive to environmental changes and as highly mobile creatures they are also extremely reactive. Birds and Climate Change discusses our current knowledge of observed changes and provides guidelines for studies in the years to come so we can document and understand how patterns of changing weather conditions may affect birds. The various chapters are written by leading experts in these fields and enlighten a broad range of aspects in bird ecology.
- Provides reviews of long-term datasets
- Incorporates meta-analyses of studies about climate change effects on birds
- Includes guidelines and suggestions for further studies
Professional ornithologists, conservation biologists, researchers and students in bird ecology. Anyone with interest in bird biology.
Introduction
Arrival and departure dates
Migrators fuelling and global climate change
Using large scale data from ringed birds for the investigation of effects of climate change on migrating birds: pitfalls and prospects
Breeding dates and reproductive performance
Global climate change leads to mistimed avian reproduction
Analysis and interpretation of long-term studies investigating responses to climate change
Photoperiodic response and the adaptability of avian life cycles to environmental change
Microevolutionary response to climatic change
Climate influences on avian population dynamics
Importance of climatic change for the ranges, communities and conservation of birds
The challenge of future research on climate change and avian biology
Arrival and departure dates
Migrators fuelling and global climate change
Using large scale data from ringed birds for the investigation of effects of climate change on migrating birds: pitfalls and prospects
Breeding dates and reproductive performance
Global climate change leads to mistimed avian reproduction
Analysis and interpretation of long-term studies investigating responses to climate change
Photoperiodic response and the adaptability of avian life cycles to environmental change
Microevolutionary response to climatic change
Climate influences on avian population dynamics
Importance of climatic change for the ranges, communities and conservation of birds
The challenge of future research on climate change and avian biology
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 28, 2006
- Language: English
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Luo Yiqi
Affiliations and expertise
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
University of Oklahoma, Norman, U.S.A.AM
Anders Pape Moller
Affiliations and expertise
Laboratoire de Parasitologie Evolutive, CNRS UMR, Paris, FranceWF
Wolfgang Fiedler
Affiliations and expertise
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany