IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v391y1998i6662d10.1038_34070.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Breeding phenology and climate⃛

Author

Listed:
  • Mads C. Forchhammer

    (University of Oslo)

  • Eric Post

    (University of Oslo)

  • Nils Chr. Stenseth

    (University of Oslo)

Abstract

European amphibians and birds have been breeding consistently earlier over the past two to three decades1,2. These changes have been attributed to the observed trends in increasing average spring temperatures in Europe3 producing earlier growing seasons4 and increased forage availability. Here we show that variations in breeding of European amphibians and birds are influenced by variations in a natural, large-scale atmospheric phenomenon, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Our results support the proximate cause (that is, increase in spring temperatures) of the altered breeding phenology as suggested previously1,2, but by extending previous analyses as well as integrating data from other bird species, they also suggest that organisms with complex life histories respond to year-to-year variations in their abiotic environment.

Suggested Citation

  • Mads C. Forchhammer & Eric Post & Nils Chr. Stenseth, 1998. "Breeding phenology and climate⃛," Nature, Nature, vol. 391(6662), pages 29-30, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:391:y:1998:i:6662:d:10.1038_34070
    DOI: 10.1038/34070
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/34070
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/34070?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:391:y:1998:i:6662:d:10.1038_34070. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.