The Effects of Weather on Avian Growth and Implications for Adaptation to Climate Change

Contrasting sensitivity of nestling and fledgling Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica body mass to local weather conditions

(2020) Richard J. Facey et al.   IBIS

Early age thermal manipulation on the performance and physiological response of broiler chickens under hot humid tropical climate

(2020) O.E. Oke et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016

(2020) John F. Piatt et al.   PLoS One

Heat dissipation capacity influences reproductive performance in an aerial insectivore

(2020) Simon Tapper et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Lifelong Effects of Thermal Challenges During Development in Birds and Mammals

(2020) Andreas Nord et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Experimental amelioration of harsh weather speeds growth and development in a tropical montane songbird

(2020) Adam Mitchell et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Weather effects on breeding parameters of two insectivorous passerines in a polluted area

(2020) Tapio Eeva et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Extreme hyperthermia tolerance in the world’s most abundant wild bird

(2020) M. T. Freeman et al.   Scientific Reports

Avian Reproduction in a Warming World

(2020) Fredrik Andreasson et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The functional significance of facultative hyperthermia varies with body size and phylogeny in birds

(2019) Alexander R. Gerson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rainy springs linked to poor nestling growth in a declining avian aerial insectivore ( Tachycineta bicolor )

(2019) Amelia R. Cox et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phenotypic plasticity in response to climate change: the importance of cue variation

(2019) Suzanne Bonamour et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Direct and indirect effects of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on development and survival of young of a tropical passerine

(2019) Blake Carlton Jones et al.   OECOLOGIA

Chronic, sublethal effects of high temperatures will cause severe declines in southern African arid-zone birds during the 21st century

(2019) Shannon R. Conradie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Under the weather: Corticosterone levels in wild nestlings are associated with ambient temperature and wind

(2019) Ondi L. Crino et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Egg size is unrelated to ambient temperature in the opportunistically breeding zebra finch

(2019) Simon C. Griffith et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Clinal variation in avian body size is better explained by summer maximum temperatures during development than by cold winter temperatures

(2018) Samuel C. Andrew et al.   AUK

The relative importance of food abundance and weather on the growth of a sub-arctic shorebird chick

(2018) Paula Machín et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Nest microclimate predicts bill growth in the Adelaide rosella (Aves: Psittaculidae)

(2018) Eliza R Larson et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Facultative hypothermia as a survival strategy during snowstorm induced food shortages in Antarctic storm-petrel chicks

(2018) Nadja D. Kuepper et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Experimentally increased nest temperature affects body temperature, growth and apparent survival in blue tit nestlings

(2018) Fredrik Andreasson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Urban versus forest ecotypes are not explained by divergent reproductive selection

(2018) Aude E. Caizergues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Early Life Stress Strengthens Trait Covariance: A Plastic Response That Results in Reduced Flexibility

(2018) Loren Merrill et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Prevailing weather conditions and diet composition affect chick growth and survival in the black-legged kittiwake

(2018) S Christensen-Dalsgaard et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Mechanisms of Plastic Rescue in Novel Environments

(2018) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Temperature and breeding success for cliff swallows Petrochelidon pyrrhonota nesting on man-made structures: ecological traps?

(2018) Tara L Imlay et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

(2018) L. Ruth Rivkin et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Heat dissipation rate constrains reproductive investment in a wild bird

(2018) Andreas Nord et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Uncertainty in recent near-surface wind speed trends: a global reanalysis intercomparison

(2017) Verónica Torralba et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Selection on parental performance opposes selection for larger body mass in a wild population of blue tits

(2017) Caroline E. Thomson et al.   EVOLUTION

Prenatal maternal effects appear to be insensitive to experimental or natural environmental variation

(2017) Caroline E. Thomson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Weather-mediated decline in prey delivery rates causes food-limitation in a top avian predator

(2017) Barry G. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Modelling avian growth with the Unified-Richards: as exemplified by wader-chick growth

(2017) Kathleen M. C. Tjørve et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Development of endothermy in birds: patterns and mechanisms

(2017) Edwin R. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Higher temperatures during development reduce body size in the zebra finch in the laboratory and in the wild

(2017) S. C. Andrew et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

brms: An R Package for Bayesian Multilevel Models Using Stan

(2017) Paul-Christian Bürkner   Journal of Statistical Software

Plasticity results in delayed breeding in a long-distant migrant seabird

(2017) F. Stephen Dobson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals an Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population

(2017) Timothée Bonnet et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The effects of temperature on offspring provisioning in a cooperative breeder

(2016) Elizabeth M. Wiley et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effects of Cool Nest Microclimates on Nestling Development: An Experimental Study with Mediterranean Great TitsParus major

(2016) Samuel Rodríguez et al.   Ardeola-International Journal of Ornithology

Nestling growth rates in relation to food abundance and weather in the Arctic

(2016) Jonathan H. Pérez et al.   AUK

Evolutionary response when selection and genetic variation covary across environments

(2016) Corlett W. Wood et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variation in reaction norms: Statistical considerations and biological interpretation

(2016) Michael B. Morrissey et al.   EVOLUTION

Temperature-induced variation in yolk androgen and thyroid hormone levels in avian eggs

(2016) Suvi Ruuskanen et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Local weather conditions have complex effects on the growth of blue tit nestlings

(2016) Mark C. Mainwaring et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Genomics of local adaptation with gene flow

(2016) Anna Tigano et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

(2016) Stephen J. Thackeray et al.   NATURE

Bergmann's rule: a biophysiological rule examined in birds

(2016) Volker Salewski et al.   OIKOS

Prenatal acoustic communication programs offspring for high posthatching temperatures in a songbird

(2016) M. M. Mariette et al.   SCIENCE

Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range

(2016) J. A. van Gils et al.   SCIENCE

Identifying the best climatic predictors in ecology and evolution

(2016) Martijn van de Pol et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Maternal effects as drivers of sibling competition in a parent-offspring conflict context? An experimental test

(2016) Thomas Merkling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

High atmospheric temperatures and ‘ambient incubation’ drive embryonic development and lead to earlier hatching in a passerine bird

(2016) Simon C. Griffith et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Differential heat tolerance in nestlings suggests sympatric species may face different climate change risks

(2015) I Catry et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

How does nest-box temperature affect nestling growth rate and breeding success in a parrot?

(2015) Eliza R. Larson et al.   EMU

Contrasting effects of climate on juvenile body size in a Southern Hemisphere passerine bird

(2015) Loeske E. B. Kruuk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Using non-linear mixed effects models to identify patterns of chick growth in House SparrowsPasser domesticus

(2015) Robert A. Aldredge   IBIS

Avian thermoregulation in the heat: scaling of heat tolerance and evaporative cooling capacity in three southern African arid-zone passerines

(2015) M. C. Whitfield et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Effects of recent decreases in arctic sea ice on an ice-associated marine bird

(2015) George J. Divoky et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Density dependence and phenological mismatch: consequences for growth and survival of sub-arctic nesting Canada Geese

(2015) Rodney W. Brook et al.   Avian Conservation and Ecology

Factors Affecting the Duration of Nestling Period and Fledging Order in Tengmalm’s Owl (Aegolius funereus): Effect of Wing Length and Hatching Sequence

(2015) Marek Kouba et al.   PLoS One

Cyclic variations in incubation conditions induce adaptive responses to later heat exposure in chickens: a review

(2014) T. Loyau et al.   Animal

Effects of Weather Conditions, Time of Breeding, Brood Size and Hatching Order on Eurasian Bittern Nestling Growth in a Food-Rich Fishpond Habitat

(2014) Zbigniew Kasprzykowski et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Weather conditions, brood size and hatching order affect Common SwiftApus apusnestlings’ survival and growth

(2014) Beatrice Sicurella et al.   BIRD STUDY

Seabird diet changes in northern Hudson Bay, 1981-2013, reflect the availability of schooling prey

(2014) AJ Gaston et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Growth, efficiency, and yield of commercial broilers from 1957, 1978, and 20051

(2014) M. J. Zuidhof et al.   POULTRY SCIENCE

Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

(2014) I. Khaliq et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Windscapes shape seabird instantaneous energy costs but adult behavior buffers impact on offspring

(2014) Kyle Hamish Elliott et al.   Movement Ecology

DISENTANGLING GENETIC AND PRENATAL SOURCES OF FAMILIAL RESEMBLANCE ACROSS ONTOGENY IN A WILD PASSERINE

(2013) Jarrod D. Hadfield et al.   EVOLUTION

Climate change and timing of avian breeding and migration: evolutionary versus plastic changes

(2013) Anne Charmantier et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Climate warming and Bergmann's rule through time: is there any evidence?

(2013) Celine Teplitsky et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Phenotypic plasticity in response to breeding density in tree swallows: An adaptive maternal effect?

(2013) Alexandra B. Bentz et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Effects of temperature and nest heat exposure on nestling growth, dehydration and survival in a Mediterranean hole-nesting passerine

(2013) Concepción Salaberria et al.   IBIS

The impact of reproductive investment and early-life environmental conditions on senescence: support for the disposable soma hypothesis

(2013) M. Hammers et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Individual differences in searching behaviour and spatial foraging consistency in a central place marine predator

(2013) Samantha C. Patrick et al.   OIKOS

Predictors of Juvenile Survival in Birds

(2013) Terri J. Maness et al.   ORNITHOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Effects of Food Availability on Yolk Androgen Deposition in the Black-Legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), a Seabird with Facultative Brood Reduction

(2013) Z M. Benowitz-Fredericks et al.   PLoS One

Temperatures in Excess of Critical Thresholds Threaten Nestling Growth and Survival in A Rapidly-Warming Arid Savanna: A Study of Common Fiscals

(2013) Susan J. Cunningham et al.   PLoS One

Arctic-nesting birds find physiological relief in the face of trophic constraints

(2013) Laura McKinnon et al.   Scientific Reports

Quantitative Assessment of the Importance of Phenotypic Plasticity in Adaptation to Climate Change in Wild Bird Populations

(2013) Oscar Vedder et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Within-Clutch Variation in Yolk Testosterone as an Adaptive Maternal Effect to Modulate Avian Sibling Competition: Evidence from a Comparative Study

(2012) Martina Muller et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Timing of breeding, peak food availability, and effects of mismatch on chick growth in birds nesting in the High Arctic

(2012) L. McKinnon et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary demographic responses to climate change: taking theory out to the field

(2012) Luis-Miguel Chevin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Food conditions affect yolk testosterone deposition but not incubation attendance

(2012) Jonas Vergauwen et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Effects of land-use change and rainfall in Sudano-Sahelian West Africa on the diet and nestling growth rates of an avian predator

(2012) Ralph Buij et al.   IBIS

Incubation Temperature Affects Growth and Energy Metabolism in Blue Tit Nestlings

(2011) Andreas Nord et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

October 2011

(2011)   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Effects of breeding date and weather on nestling development in White StorksCiconia ciconia

(2011) Jakub Z. Kosicki et al.   BIRD STUDY

Heritability is not Evolvability

(2011) Thomas F. Hansen et al.   Evolutionary Biology

Climate change, phenological shifts, eco-evolutionary responses and population viability: toward a unifying predictive approach

(2011) Stéphanie Jenouvrier et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

El Niño in the Warm Tropics: local sea temperature predicts breeding parameters and growth of blue-footed boobies

(2011) Sergio Ancona et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Declining body size: a third universal response to warming?

(2011) Janet L. Gardner et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evaluation of two Indian native chicken breeds for reproduction traits and heritability of juvenile growth traits

(2011) Santosh Haunshi et al.   TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION

Egg size and offspring quality: a meta-analysis in birds

(2010) Miloš Krist   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Shifts in phenotypic plasticity constrain the value of seabirds as ecological indicators of marine ecosystems

(2010) David Grémillet et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A unified approach to the Richards-model family for use in growth analyses: Why we need only two model forms

(2010) Even Tjørve et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Experimental cooling during incubation leads to reduced innate immunity and body condition in nestling tree swallows

(2010) D. R. Ardia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phenotypic plasticity and population viability: the importance of environmental predictability

(2010) T. E. Reed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genetic and phenotypic parameter estimates for body weights and egg production in Horro chicken of Ethiopia

(2010) Nigussie Dana et al.   TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION

Mhc polymorphisms fail to explain the heritability of phytohaemagglutinin-induced skin swelling in a wild passerine

(2009) C. Bonneaud et al.   Biology Letters

Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves

(2009) A. E. McKechnie et al.   Biology Letters

An ecologist’s guide to the animal model

(2009) Alastair J. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Slight differences in incubation temperature affect early growth and stress endocrinology of wood duck (Aix sponsa) ducklings

(2009) S. E. DuRant et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Experimental heating reveals nest temperature affects nestling condition in tree swallows (Tachycineta bicolor)

(2008) J. H Perez et al.   Biology Letters

UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION AND STABILITY OF THE G-MATRIX

(2008) Stevan J. Arnold et al.   EVOLUTION

Are yolk androgens adjusted to environmental conditions? A test in two seabirds that lay single-egg clutches

(2008) BriAnne Addison et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Plasticity in the adrenocortical response of a free-living vertebrate: The role of pre- and post-natal developmental stress

(2008) O LOVE et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Relative importance off environmental variables in determining the growth off nestling Tree Swallows Tachycineta bicolor

(2008) John P. Mccarty et al.   IBIS

ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON GROWTH AND SURVIVAL OF NESTLING HOUSE MARTINS DELICHON URBICA

(2008) D. M. BRYANT   IBIS

HEAT LOSS IN WET DUCKLINGS AND CHICKS

(2008) Pauline A. Nye   IBIS

THE BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE SWIFT APUS APUS

(2008) Elizabeth Lack   IBIS

FACTORS AFFECTING THE GROWTH RATE OF NESTLING GREAT REED WARBLERS AND REED WARBLERS AT MILICZ, POLAND

(2008) Andrzej Dyrcz   IBIS

PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN BIRDS

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   IBIS

Nestling growth and mortality of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca in relation to weather and breeding effort

(2008) PIRKKO SIIKAMÄKI   IBIS

Impact of weather variation on feeding behaviour, nestling growth and brood survival in Wrynecks Jynx torquilla

(2008) Stephanie Geiser et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

Individual specialization in diet by a generalist marine predator reflects specialization in foraging behaviour

(2008) Kerry J. Woo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Temperature and life history: experimental heating leads female tree swallows to modulate egg temperature and incubation behaviour

(2008) Daniel R. Ardia et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Experimental reduction of incubation temperature affects both nestling and adult blue titsCyanistes caeruleus

(2008) Johan F. Nilsson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Age-specific reproduction in a long-lived species: the combined effects of senescence and individual quality

(2008) R.H McCleery et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Estimating evolutionary parameters when viability selection is operating

(2008) J. D Hadfield   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Hormone-mediated maternal effects in birds: mechanisms matter but what do we know of them?

(2007) Ton. G.G Groothuis et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES