Publication Date:
2006-07-01
Description:
Several bird species have advanced the timing of their spring migration in response to recent climate change. European short-distance migrants, wintering in temperate areas, have been assumed to be more affected by change in the European climate than long-distance migrants wintering in the tropics. However, we show that long-distance migrants have advanced their spring arrival in Scandinavia more than short-distance migrants. By analyzing a long-term data set from southern Italy, we show that long-distance migrants also pass through the Mediterranean region earlier. We argue that this may reflect a climate-driven evolutionary change in the timing of spring migration.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jonzen, Niclas -- Linden, Andreas -- Ergon, Torbjorn -- Knudsen, Endre -- Vik, Jon Olav -- Rubolini, Diego -- Piacentini, Dario -- Brinch, Christian -- Spina, Fernando -- Karlsson, Lennart -- Stervander, Martin -- Andersson, Arne -- Waldenstrom, Jonas -- Lehikoinen, Aleksi -- Edvardsen, Erik -- Solvang, Rune -- Stenseth, Nils Chr -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jun 30;312(5782):1959-61.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Theoretical Ecology, Ecology Building, Lund University, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16809542" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa
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*Animal Migration
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Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Birds/*physiology
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*Climate
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Cues
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Flight, Animal
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Italy
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Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
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*Seasons
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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