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The Effect of Climate Change on Birds

by David Leech

1. Overview
 
2. Global climate change
 
3. The value and use of long-term data sets
 
4. Influence of climatic change on population size
 
  4.1 Direct effects of temperature and rainfall
 
  4.2 Food availability
 
    a. Food accessibility during British winters
 
    b. Winter food availability for Palaearctic-African migrants
 
    c. Food availability for breeding birds
 
  4.3
 Incidence of disease
 
  4.4 Population size and density dependence
 
5. Influence of climatic change on species distribution
 
6. Influence of climatic change on phenology
 
  6.1 Timing of egg laying
 
  6.2 Timing of migration
 
7. Future research
 
  References

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