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Migratory strategy drives species-level variation in bird sensitivity to vegetation green-up.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Jul 2021
Youngflesh Casey, Socolar Jacob, Amaral Bruna R, Arab Ali, Guralnick Robert P, Hurlbert Allen H, LaFrance Raphael, Mayor Stephen J, Miller David A W, Tingley Morgan W
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Animals and plants are shifting the timing of key life events in response to climate change, yet despite recent documentation of escalating phenological change, scientists lack a full understanding of how and why phenological responses vary across space and among species. Here, we used over 7 million community-contributed bird observations to derive species-specific, spatially explicit estimates of annual spring...
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