Birds and Climate Change

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Overview

Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. As observations have shown, these climatic changes have serious consequences for all organisms and their ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Birds are excellent model organisms: they have 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 future studies, so we can document and understand how patterns of changing weather conditions may affect birds.

Audience: Scientists and academicians studying ecology, evolution, plant biology, physiology, the environment, population biology, and entomology.

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"...a valuable reference for ornithologists..."
- Jason Jones, Vassar College, for ECOLOGY

"...a really fascinating resume of our current understanding...the editors are to be congratulated...a publication that every ornithological library should hold..."
- BRITISH BIRDS

"Those seeking to understand and perhaps limit the impacts of human-caused environmental change on birds and other organisms can certainly benefit."
-John P. McCarty, Department of Biology, University of Nebraska in THE CONDOR

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Table of Contents

Arrival and departure dates
Migratory 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 climate change for the ranges, communities and conservation of birds
The challenge of future research on climate change and avian biology
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