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

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