Phenological Synchrony and Bird Migration : Changing Climate and Seasonal Resources in North America

Content: 
Front Cover; Contents; Contributors; Editors; Preface; Chapter 1: Leaps, Chains, and Climate Change for Western Migratory Songbirds; Chapter 2: Landbird Stopover in the Great Lakes Region : Integrating Habitat Use and Climate Change in Conservation; Chapter 3: A Bird\'s-Eye View of the USA National Phenology Network : An Off-the-Shelf Monitoring Program; Chapter 4: Spring Resource Phenology and Timing of Songbird Migration across the Gulf of Mexico; Chapter 5: Climate on Wintering Grounds Drives Spring Arrival of Short-Distance Migrants to the Upper Midwest. Chapter 6: Phenological Asynchrony between Migrant Songbirds and Food Resources during Early Springs : Initiation of a Trophic Cascade at a Stopover SiteChapter 7: Climatic Extremes Influence Spring Tree Phenology and Migratory Songbird Foraging Behavior; Chapter 8: Phenological Synchrony of Bird Migration with Tree Flowering at Desert Riparian Stopover Sites; Chapter 9: Shorebird Migration in the Face of Climate Change : Potential Shifts in Migration Phenology and Resource Availability; Chapter 10: Matching Ephemeral Resources on Autumnal Stopover and the Potential for Mismatch. Chapter 11: Annual Variation in Autumn Migration Phenology and Energetic Condition at a Stopover Site in the Western United StatesChapter 12: Autumn Migration of North American Landbirds; Appendix A; Back Cover.
 Abstract:             Current rates of climate change are faster than birds can evolve, leading to serious mismatch of migration and seasonal or phenological timing. The result is a concomitant decline of migratory bird species. The editors of this volume have assembled a team of leading experts to synthesize and review what is known of the phenological asynchrony associated with the timing and patterns of North American bird migration. This will be among the most stark and alarming accounts of the adverse impacts of climate change on a continental scale