Hydrology influences breeding time in the white-throated dipper.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Earlier breeding is one of the strongest responses to global change in birds and is a key factor determining reproductive success. In most studies of climate effects, the focus has been on large-scale environmental indices or temperature averaged over large geographical areas, neglecting that animals are affected by the local conditions in their home ranges. In riverine ecosystems, climate change is altering the flow regime, in addition to changes resulting from the increasing demand for renewable and clean hydropower. Together with increasing temperatures, this can lead to shifts in the time window available for successful breeding of birds associated with the riverine habitat. Here, we investigated specifically how the environmental conditions at the territory level in

SUBMITTER: Nilsson ALK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7745505 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature