Preferred Habitat of Breeding Birds May Be Compromised by Climate Change: Unexpected Effects of an Exceptionally Cold, Wet Spring

Michael J. Whitehouse; Nancy M. Harrison; Julia Mackenzie; Shelley A. Hinsley

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075536

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Preferred Habitat of Breeding Birds May Be Compromised by Climate Change: Unexpected Effects of an Exceptionally Cold, Wet Spring

Michael J. Whitehouse,

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Nancy M. Harrison ,

* E-mail: Nancy.harrison@anglia.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Julia Mackenzie,

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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Shelley A. Hinsley

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Natural Environment Research Council, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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Preferred Habitat of Breeding Birds May Be Compromised by Climate Change: Unexpected Effects of an Exceptionally Cold, Wet Spring

Michael J. Whitehouse,
Nancy M. Harrison,
Julia Mackenzie,
Shelley A. Hinsley

Published: September 18, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075536

About the Authors

Michael J. Whitehouse

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Nancy M. Harrison

* E-mail: Nancy.harrison@anglia.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Julia Mackenzie

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Shelley A. Hinsley

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Natural Environment Research Council, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW NH SH. Performed the experiments: MW NH JM SH. Analyzed the data: MW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW NH JM SH. Wrote the manuscript: MW NH JM SH.

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