Effects of Climate Change on Birds

Peter Dunn is an avian ecologist and geneticist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He obtained his PhD in 1989 at the University of Alberta where he studied the mating behaviour and ecology of tree swallows. Throughout his career, Dr. Dunn has been interested in the effects of food abundance on reproductive success and mating behavior. In 1997, after reading about the effects of climate change on birds in England, Dr.Dunn initiated the first large-scale study of the effects of climate warming on birds in North America, and he is currently examining the effects of warming on long-term trends in insect abundance. Anders Pape Møller obtained a PhD in zoology at Aarhus University, Denmark in 1985, on social behaviour in barn swallows. Dr. Møller has broad research interests in ecology, radioecology, evolution, genetics and global change biology. He has conducted more than ten long-term studies of birds, insects and other organisms since the late 1970's.

Although only 9 years after the first edition, the amount of new information presented is immense in terms of ecology, evolution, and conservation...replete with highly informative figures, text boxes, graphs, and tables...a useful and enjoyable read to every ecologist, evolutionary biologist, ornithologist, conservationist, and those interested in climate-change ecology.

• Section 1: Introduction 1: Introduction Peter O. Dunn and Anders Pape Møller 2: Climate change Kevin E. Trenberth and James W. Hurrell Section 2: Methods for studying climate change effects 3: Finding and analysing long-term climate data Mark Schwartz and Liang Liang 4: Long-term time series of ornithological data Anders Pape Møller and Wesley Hochachka 5: Quantifying the climatic sensitivity of individuals, populations and species Martijn van de Pol and Liam Bailey 6: Ecological niche modelling Damaris Zurell and Jan O. Engler 7: Predicting the effects of climate change on bird population dynamics Bernt-Erik Sæther, Steinar Engen, Marlène Gamelon and Vidar Grøtan Section 3: Population consequences of climate change 8: Changes in migration, carry-over effects and migratory connectivity Roberto Ambrosini, Andrea Romano and Nicola Saino 9: Changes in timing of breeding and reproductive success in birds Peter O. Dunn 10: Physiological and morphological effects of climate change Andrew McKechnie 11: Evolutionary consequences of climate change in birds Céline Teplitsky and Anne Charmantier 12: Projected population consequences of climate change Dave Iles and Stephanie Jenouvrier 13: Consequences of climatic change for distributions Brian Huntley Section 4: Interspecific effects of climate change 14: Host-parasite interactions and climate change Santiago Merino 15: Predator-prey interactions and climate change Vincent Bretagnolle and Julien Terraube 16: Bird communities and climate change Lluis Brotons, Sergi Herrando, Frédéric Jiguet and Aleksi Lehikoinen 17: Fitting the lens of climate change on bird conservation in the 21st century Peter P. Marra, Benjamin Zuckerberg and Christiaan Both 18: Climate change in other taxa and links to bird studies David Inouye 19: Conclusions Anders Pape Møller and Peter O. Dunn