• Disrupted seasonal biology impacts health, food security and ecosystems 

      Stevenson, Tyler J.; Visser, Marcel E.; Arnold, Walter; Barrett, Perry; Biello, Stephany M.; Dawson, Alistair G.; Denlinger, David L.; Dominoni, Davide M.; Ebling, Francis J.P.; Elton, Sarah; Evans, Neil; Ferguson, Heather M.; Foster, Russell G.; Hau, Michaela; Haydon, Daniel Thomas; Hazlerigg, David; Heideman, Paul D.; Hopcraft, John Grant C.; Jonsson, Nicholas N.; Kronfeld-Schor, Noga; Kumar, Vinod Anil; Lincoln, Gerald A.; Macleod, Ross; Martin, Samuel A.M.; Martinez-Bakker, Michaela E.; Nelson, Randy J.; Reed, Thomas E.; Robinson, Jane E.; Rock, Daniel Joseph E.; Schwartz, William J.; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Tauber, Eran; Thackeray, Stephen J.; Umstätter, Christina; Yoshimura, Takashi; Helm, Barbara (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-10-22)
      The rhythm of life on earth is shaped by seasonal changes in the environment. Plants and animals show profound annual cycles in physiology, health, morphology, behaviour and demography in response to environmental cues. Seasonal biology impacts ecosystems and agriculture, with consequences for humans and biodiversity. Human populations show robust annual rhythms in health and well-being, and the ...
    • The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis 

      Halupka, Lucyna; Arlt, Debora; Tolvanen, Jere; Millon, Alexandre; Bize, Pierre; Adamík, Peter; Albert, Pascal; Arendt, Wayne J.; Artemyev, Alexander V.; Baglione, Vittorio; Bańbura, Jerzy; Bańbura, Mirosława; Barba, Emilio; Barrett, Robert; Becker, Peter H.; Belskii, Eugen; Bolton, Mark; Bowers, E Keith; Bried, Joël; Brouwer, Lyanne; Bukacińska, Monika; Bukaciński, Dariusz; Bulluck, Lesley; Carstens, Kate F.; Catry, Inês; Charter, Motti; Chernomorets, Anna; Covas, Rita; Czuchra, Monika; Dearborn, Donald C.; de Lope, Florentino; Di Giacomo, Adrián S; Dombrovski, Valery C.; Drummond, Hugh; Dunn, Michael J.; Eeva, Tapio; Emmerson, Louise M.; Espmark, Yngve; Fargallo, Juan A.; Gashkov, Sergey I.; Golubova, Elena Yu; Griesser, Michael; Harris, Michael P.; Hoover, Jeffrey P.; Jagiełło, Zuzanna; Karell, Patrik; Kloskowski, Janusz; Koenig, Walter D.; Kolunen, Heikki; Korczak-Abshire, Małgorzata; Korpimäki, Erkki; Krams, Indrikis; Krist, Miloš; Krüger, Sonja C.; Kuranov, Boris D.; Lambin, Xavier; Lombardo, Michael P.; Lyakhov, Andrey; Marzal, Alfonso; Møller, Anders P.; Neves, Verónica C; Nielsen, Jan Tøttrup; Numerov, Alexander; Orłowska, Beata; Oro, Daniel; Öst, Markus; Phillips, Richard A.; Pietiäinen, Hannu; Polo, Vicente; Porkert, Jiří; Potti, Jaime; Pöysä, Hannu; Printemps, Thierry; Prop, Jouke; Quillfeldt, Petra; Ramos, Jaime A.; Ravussin, Pierre-Alain; Rosenfield, Robert N.; Roulin, Alexandre; Rubenstein, Dustin R.; Samusenko, Irina E.; Saunders, Denis A.; Schaub, Michael; Senar, Juan C.; Sergio, Fabrizio; Solonen, Tapio; Solovyeva, Diana V.; Stępniewski, Janusz; Thompson, Paul M.; Tobolka, Marcin; Török, János; van de Pol, Martijn; Vernooij, Louis; Visser, Marcel E.; Westneat, David F.; Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.; Wiącek, Jarosław; Wiebe, Karen; Wood, Andrew G.; Wuczyński, Andrzej; Wysocki, Dariusz; Zárybnická, Markéta; Margalida, Antoni; Halupka, Konrad (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Climate change affects timing of reproduction in many bird species, but few studies have investigated its influence on annual reproductive output. Here, we assess changes in the annual production of young by female breeders in 201 populations of 104 bird species (N = 745,962 clutches) covering all continents between 1970 and 2019. Overall, average offspring production has declined in recent decades, ...
    • Genotypes selected for early and late avian lay date differ in their phenotype, but not fitness, in the wild 

      Lindner, Melanie; Ramakers, Jip Jc; Verhagen, Irene; Mizumo Tomotani, Barbara; Mateman, A Christa; Gienapp, Phillip; Visser, Marcel E. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-07)
      Global warming has shifted phenological traits in many species, but whether species are able to track further increasing temperatures depends on the fitness consequences of additional shifts in phenological traits. To test this, we measured phenology and fitness of great tits (Parus major) with genotypes for extremely early and late egg lay dates, obtained from a genomic selection experiment. ...
    • Temporal correlations among demographic parameters are ubiquitous but highly variable across species 

      Fay, Rémi; Hamel, Sandra; Van de Pol, Martijn; Gaillard, Jean Michel; Yoccoz, Nigel; Acker, Paul; Authier, Matthieu; Larue, Benjamin; Le Coeur, Christie; Macdonald, Kaitlin R.; Nicol-Harper, Alex; Barbraud, Christophe; Bonenfant, Christophe; Van Vuren, Dirk H.; Cam, Emmanuelle; Delord, Karine; Gamelon, Marlène; Moiron, Maria; Pelletier, Fanie; Teplitsky, Céline; Visser, Marcel E.; Wells, Caitlin P.; Wheelwright, Nathaniel T.; Jenouvrier, Stéphanie; Sæther, Bernt-Erik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-24)
      Temporal correlations among demographic parameters can strongly influence population dynamics. Our empirical knowledge, however, is very limited regarding the direction and the magnitude of these correlations and how they vary among demographic parameters and species’ life histories. Here, we use long-term demographic data from 15 bird and mammal species with contrasting pace of life to quantify ...