期刊
BIOLOGY LETTERS
卷 9, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0669
关键词
breeding success; migrant; climate change; carry-over effect; sub-Saharan Africa
资金
- JNCC/BTO partnership on behalf of the Country Agencies
Long-distance migrants may be particularly vulnerable to climate change on both wintering and breeding grounds. However, the relative importance of climatic variables at different stages of the annual cycle is poorly understood, even in well-studied Palaearctic migrant species. Using a national dataset spanning 46 years, we investigate the impact of wintering ground precipitation and breeding ground temperature on breeding phenology and clutch size of 19 UK migrants. Although both spring temperature and arid zone precipitation were significantly correlated with laying date, the former accounted for 3.5 times more inter-annual variation. Neither climate variable strongly affected clutch size. Thus, although carry-over effects had some impact, they were weaker drivers of reproductive traits than conditions on the breeding grounds.
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