Fluctuations in annual climatic extremes are associated with reproductive variation in resident mountain chickadees.

ABSTRACT: Mounting evidence suggests that we are experiencing rapidly accelerating global climate change. Understanding how climate change may affect life is critical to identifying species and populations that are vulnerable. Most current research focuses on investigating how organisms may respond to gradual warming, but another effect of climate change is extreme annual variation in precipitation associated with alternations between drought and unusually heavy precipitation, like that exhibited in the western regions of North America. Understanding climate change effects on animal reproductive behaviour is especially important, because it directly impacts population persistence. Here, we present data on reproduction in nest-box breeding, resident mountain chickadees inhabiting high and low elevati

SUBMITTER: Kozlovsky DY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990810 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature