Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change

@article{Knudsen2011ChallengingCI,
  title={Challenging claims in the study of migratory birds and climate change},
  author={Endre Knudsen and Andreas Lind{\'e}n and Christiaan Both and Niclas Jonzén and Francisco Pulido and Nicola Saino and William J. Sutherland and Lars Arve Bach and Timothy Coppack and Torbj{\o}rn Ergon and Phillip Gienapp and Jennifer A. Gill and Oscar Gordo and Anders Hedenstr{\"o}m and Esa Lehikoinen and Peter P. Marra and Anders Pape M{\o}ller and Anna L. K. Nilsson and Guillaume P{\'e}ron and Esa Ranta and Diego Rubolini and Tim H. Sparks and Fernando Spina and Colin E. Studds and Stein Are S{\ae}ther and Piotr Tryjanowski and Nils Chr. Stenseth},
  journal={Biological Reviews},
  year={2011},
  volume={86}
}
Recent shifts in phenology in response to climate change are well established but often poorly understood. Many animals integrate climate change across a spatially and temporally dispersed annual life cycle, and effects are modulated by ecological interactions, evolutionary change and endogenous control mechanisms. Here we assess and discuss key statements emerging from the rapidly developing study of changing spring phenology in migratory birds. These well‐studied organisms have been… 
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