Climate change is threatening biodiversity world-wide. One of its most prominent
manifestations are rising global temperatures and higher frequencies of heat waves. High …

Climate change research on seabirds has so far focused mainly on indirect effects acting via
impacts at lower trophic levels. However, seabirds that breed in exposed sites may also be …

Aims Understanding the suite of environmental changes impacting migration and
disentangling these from the dependencies between migratory stages is fundamental to …

Arctic breeding seabirds have experienced dramatic population declines in recent decades.
The population of Arctic skuas (Stercorarius parasiticus) nesting on the Faroe Islands, North …

Trait-based assessments allow rapid evaluation of species' vulnerability to climate change,
but often overlook subtle yet consequential interspecific variation in behavioural and …

Background Chicks of precocial birds hatch well-developed and can search actively for food
but their homeothermy develops gradually during growth. This makes them dependent on …

Songbirds are one of the groups most vulnerable to extreme heat events. Although several
recent studies have assessed their physiological responses to heat, most of them have …

With increasing air temperatures and frequency of extreme weather events predicted under
climate change, ground-nesting seabird chicks are vulnerable, enduring months at a fixed …

Survival and reproduction of endotherms depend on their ability to balance energy and
water exchange with their environment, avoiding lethal deficits and maximising gains for …

Increasing temperatures due to climate warming may expose many species to thermally
dangerous conditions, especially during less mobile phases of their life cycle when the …