∗ MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College, London. † School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast. We would like to acknowledge that Dr. Antonia J Cronin’s PhD at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law, University of Manchester wa...

Climate change affects the phenology of many species. As temperature and precipitation are thought to control autumn color change in temperate deciduous trees, it is possible that climate change might also affect the phenology of autumn colors. Using long-term data for eight tree species in a New England hardwood forest, we show that the timing and cumulative amount of autumn color are correlat...

Here we examine the relationship between the Southern Hemisphere (SH) Annular Mode (SAM) and Antarctic near-surface temperatures using data from Antarctic stations for 1957-2004. This near half-century period is significantly longer than analysed in previous studies. Furthermore, the four seasons are considered independently while the longer datasets allow the temporal stability of the relation...

—Infectious diseases can potentially affect the seasonal migration of hawks. We tested three species of California hawks from autumn 2004 to spring 2006 for haemosporidian blood parasites (Plasmodium, Haemoproteus, and Leucocytozoon spp.). We screened 323 Red-tailed Hawks (Buteo jamaicensis), 100 Cooper’s Hawks (Accipiter cooperii), and 21 Red-shouldered Hawks (B. lineatus) for blood parasites ...