Effects of Climate Change on Birds

This new edition provides an exhaustive and up-to-date synthesis of the rapidly expanding literature on birds and climate change. Peter Dunn is an avian ecologist and geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He obtained his PhD in 1989 at the University of Alberta where he studied the mating behaviour and ecology of tree swallows. Throughout his career, Dr. Dunn has been interested in the effects of food abundance on reproductive success and mating behavior. In 1997, after reading about the effects of climate change on birds in England, Dr.Dunn initiated the first large-scale study of the effects of climate warming on birds in North America, and he is currently examining the effects of warming on long-term trends in insect abundance. ; Anders Pape Moller obtained a PhD in zoology at Aarhus University, Denmark in 1985, on social behaviour in barn swallows. Dr. Moller has broad research interests in ecology, radioecology, evolution, genetics and global change biology. He has conducted more than ten long-term studies of birds, insects and other organisms since the late 1970’s. Section 1: Introduction; 1 Peter O. Dunn and Anders Pape Moller: Introduction; 2 Kevin E. Trenberth and James W. Hurrell: Climate change; Section 2: Methods for studying climate change effects; 3 Mark Schwartz and Liang Liang: Finding and analysing long-term climate data; 4 Anders Pape Moller and Wesley Hochachka: Long-term time series of ornithological data; 5 Martijn van de Pol and Liam Bailey: Quantifying the climatic sensitivity of individuals, populations and species; 6 Damaris Zurell and Jan O. Engler: Ecological niche modelling; 7 Bernt-Erik Saether, Steinar Engen, Marlene Gamelon and Vidar Grotan: Predicting the effects of climate change on bird population dynamics; Section 3: Population consequences of climate change; 8 Roberto Ambrosini, Andrea Romano and Nicola Saino: Changes in migration, carry-over effects and migratory connectivity; 9 Peter O. Dunn: Changes in timing of breeding and reproductive success in birds; 10 Andrew McKechnie: Physiological and morphological effects of climate change; 11 Celine Teplitsky and Anne Charmantier: Evolutionary consequences of climate change in birds; 12 Dave Iles and Stephanie Jenouvrier: Projected population consequences of climate change; 13 Brian Huntley: Consequences of climatic change for distributions; Section 4: Interspecific effects of climate change; 14 Santiago Merino: Host-parasite interactions and climate change; 15 Vincent Bretagnolle and Julien Terraube: Predator-prey interactions and climate change; 16 Lluis Brotons, Sergi Herrando, Frederic Jiguet and Aleksi Lehikoinen: Bird communities and climate change; 17 Peter P. Marra, Benjamin Zuckerberg and Christiaan Both: Fitting the lens of climate change on bird conservation in the 21st century; 18 David Inouye: Climate change in other taxa and links to bird studies; 19 Anders Pape Moller and Peter O. Dunn: Conclusions