Winter temperatures limit population growth rate of a migratory songbird
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Winter temperatures limit population growth rate of a migratory songbird
Understanding the factors that limit and regulate wildlife populations requires insight into demographic and environmental processes acting throughout the annual cycle. Here, we combine multi-year tracking data of individual birds with a 26-year demographic study of a migratory songbird to evaluate the relative effects of density and weather at the breeding and wintering grounds on population g...
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1) Finnish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 26, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland (emails: [email protected], [email protected]) 2) Integrative Ecology Unit, Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 65, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland (e-mail: [email protected]) 3) Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, P.O. Box 2, FI-00791 Helsin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Communications
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14812