The influence of weather on avian spring migration phenology: What, where and when?

Global Change Biology
Birgen HaestFranz Bairlein

Abstract

Over the past decades, spring arrival and passage of most short- and medium-distance migrating birds in the Northern Hemisphere have advanced. Changes in spring temperature at the passage or arrival area have been most frequently shown to be related to these changes in spring migration phenology. In most studies, preliminary assumptions are made on both the spatial location and the specific time frame of the weather influencing spring migration phenology. We performed a spatially explicit time-window analysis of the effect of weather on mean spring passage dates of nine short- and medium-distance passerines. We analysed data from standardized daily captures at the Helgoland (Germany) constant-effort site, in combination with gridded daily temperature, precipitation and wind data from the NCEP data set over a 55-year period (1960-2014), across the whole of West Europe and North Africa. Although we allowed for a time window of any length at any location, nevertheless incorporating various measures to avoid spurious correlations, time windows at the likely wintering or spring stopover grounds were almost exclusively selected as the best predicting variables (96%-100% of identified variables). The weather variables at the wintering...Continue Reading

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Jul 6, 2019·Global Change Biology·Birgen HaestFranz Bairlein
Mar 27, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Alicja M BuczekKatarzyna Bartosik
Jul 1, 2020·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Birgen HaestFranz Bairlein
Nov 6, 2020·Global Change Biology·Birgen HaestSilke Bauer
May 1, 2021·Nature Ecology & Evolution·Casey YoungfleshMorgan W Tingley

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