Fuelling conditions at staging sites can mitigate Arctic warming effects in a migratory bird

Autor: Eldar Rakhimberdiev, Sjoerd Duijns, Julia Karagicheva, Cornelis J. Camphuysen, VRS Castricum, Anne Dekinga, Rob Dekker, Anatoly Gavrilov, Job ten Horn, Joop Jukema, Anatoly Saveliev, Mikhail Soloviev, T. Lee Tibbitts, Jan A. van Gils, Theunis Piersma
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06673-5
Popis: Advancing phenological timing is a risk for migratory birds, particularly in the Arctic where change is most rapid. Here, the authors show that bar-tailed godwits can adjust for phenological shifts by fuelling faster at staging areas to arrive at breeding sites in time.
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