The limits of modifying migration speed to adjust to climate change

Heiko Schmaljohann () and Christiaan Both
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Heiko Schmaljohann: Institute of Avian Research “Vogelwarte Helgoland”
Christiaan Both: Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Lifesciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen

Nature Climate Change, 2017, vol. 7, issue 8, 573-576

Abstract: Analysis synthesizing 49 tracking studies shows that flexibility in the major determinant of migration duration is insufficient to adjust to ongoing climate change, and is unlikely to explain many of the changes in arrival timing already observed.

Date: 2017
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