Climate Change and Birds

The BOU has run three conferences on climate change and birds in 1999, 2004 and 2009. The proceedings from all three conferences are now online and collectively form a major contribution to farmland bird studies.

All papers are free to view.

Climate Change and Birds (2010)

Wind, Fire and Water: Renewable Energy and Birds (2006)

Climate Change and Coastal Birds (2004)

Other recent climate change and birds related papers published in Ibis (not from any of the above conferences):

Commentary:

Unravelling the mechanisms linking climate change, agriculture and avian population declines

JAMES W. PEARCE-HIGGINS and JENNIFER A. GILL

Article first published online: 15 JUN 2010 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01041.x

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Commentary:

The search for winners and losers in a sea of climate change

KEITH C. HAMER

Article first published online: 8 DEC 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00995.x

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Original article:

Combined impacts of longline fisheries and climate on the persistence of the Amsterdam Albatross Diomedia amsterdamensis

PHILIPPE RIVALAN, CHRISTOPHE BARBRAUD, PABLO INCHAUSTI and HENRI WEIMERSKIRCH

Article first published online: 13 NOV 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00977.x

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Original article:

Advances in laying date and increasing population size suggest positive responses to climate change in Common Eiders Somateria mollissima in Iceland

LILIANA D’ALBA, PAT MONAGHAN and RUEDI G. NAGER

Article first published online: 19 NOV 2009 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2009.00978.x

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