Population vulnerability to climate change linked to timing of breeding in boreal ducks

AbstractIdentifying and understanding why traits make species vulnerable to changing climatic conditions remain central problems in evolutionary and applied ecology. We used spring snow cover duration as a proxy for phenological timing of wetland ecosystems, and examined how snow cover duration duri

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