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SCIENCE
Volume 288, Issue 5473, Pages 2040-2042Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5473.2040
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Progress toward understanding factors that Limit abundances of migratory birds, including climate change, has been difficult because these species move between diverse Locations, often on different continents. For black-throated blue warblers (Dendroica caerulescens), demographic rates in both tropical winter quarters and north temperate breeding grounds varied with fluctuations in the El Nino Southern Oscillation. Adult survival and fecundity were Lower in El Nino years and higher in La Nina years. Fecundity, in turn, was positively correlated with subsequent recruitment of new individuals into winter and breeding populations. These findings demonstrate that migratory birds can be affected by shifts in global climate patterns and emphasize the need to know how events throughout the annual cycle interact to determine population size.
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