Rapid climate driven shifts in wintering distributions of three common waterbird species

Lehikoinen, Aleksi; Jaatinen, Kim; Vahatalo, Anssi V.; Clausen, Preben; Crowe, Olivia; Deceuninck, Bernard; Hearn, Richard; Holt, Chas A.; Hornman, Menno; Keller, Verena; Nilsson, Leif; Langendoen, Tom; Tomankova, Irena

Rapid climate driven shifts in wintering distributions of three common waterbird species

Date

2013

Authors

Lehikoinen, Aleksi

Jaatinen, Kim

Vahatalo, Anssi V.

Clausen, Preben

Crowe, Olivia

Deceuninck, Bernard

Hearn, Richard

Holt, Chas A.

Hornman, Menno

Keller, Verena

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Climate change is predicted to cause changes in species distributions and several studies report margin range shifts in some species. However, the reported changes rarely concern a species' entire distribution and are not always linked to climate change.