The effect of nest temperature on growth and survival in juvenile Great Tits Parus major.

ABSTRACT: For birds, maintaining an optimal nest temperature is critical for early-life growth and development. Temperatures deviating from this optimum can affect nestling growth and fledging success with potential consequences on survival and lifetime reproductive success. It is therefore particularly important to understand these effects in relation to projected temperature changes associated with climate change.Targets set by the 2015 Paris Agreement aim to limit temperature increases to 2°C, and, with this in mind, we carried out an experiment in 2017 and 2018 where we applied a treatment that increased Great Tit Parus major nest temperature by approximately this magnitude (achieving an increase of 1.6°C, relative to the control) during the period from hatching to fledging to esti

SUBMITTER: Corregidor-Castro A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8216922 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature