Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

  • Viktoriia Radchuk,
  • Thomas Reed,
  • Céline Teplitsky,
  • Martijn van de Pol,
  • Anne Charmantier,
  • Christopher Hassall,
  • Peter Adamík,
  • Frank Adriaensen,
  • Markus P. Ahola,
  • Peter Arcese,
  • Jesús Miguel Avilés,
  • Javier Balbontin,
  • Karl S. Berg,
  • Antoni Borras,
  • Sarah Burthe,
  • Jean Clobert,
  • Nina Dehnhard,
  • Florentino de Lope,
  • André A. Dhondt,
  • Niels J. Dingemanse,
  • Hideyuki Doi,
  • Tapio Eeva,
  • Joerns Fickel,
  • Iolanda Filella,
  • Frode Fossøy,
  • Anne E. Goodenough,
  • Stephen J. G. Hall,
  • Bengt Hansson,
  • Michael Harris,
  • Dennis Hasselquist,
  • Thomas Hickler,
  • Jasmin Joshi,
  • Heather Kharouba,
  • Juan Gabriel Martínez,
  • Jean-Baptiste Mihoub,
  • James A. Mills,
  • Mercedes Molina-Morales,
  • Arne Moksnes,
  • Arpat Ozgul,
  • Deseada Parejo,
  • Philippe Pilard,
  • Maud Poisbleau,
  • Francois Rousset,
  • Mark-Oliver Rödel,
  • David Scott,
  • Juan Carlos Senar,
  • Constanti Stefanescu,
  • Bård G. Stokke,
  • Tamotsu Kusano,
  • Maja Tarka,
  • Corey E. Tarwater,
  • Kirsten Thonicke,
  • Jack Thorley,
  • Andreas Wilting,
  • Piotr Tryjanowski,
  • Juha Merilä,
  • Ben C. Sheldon,
  • Anders Pape Møller,
  • Erik Matthysen,
  • Fredric Janzen,
  • F. Stephen Dobson,
  • Marcel E. Visser,
  • Steven R. Beissinger,
  • Alexandre Courtiol,
  • Stephanie Kramer-Schadt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10924-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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It is unclear whether species’ responses to climate change tend to be adaptive or sufficient to keep up with climate change. Here, Radchuk et al. perform a meta-analysis showing that in birds phenology has advanced adaptively in some species, though not all the way to the new optima.