Nina Dehnhard

TL;DR: A meta-analysis focussing on birds suggests that global warming has not systematically affected morphological traits, but has advanced phenological traits and indicates that the evolutionary load imposed by incomplete adaptive responses to ongoing climate change may already be threatening the persistence of species.

TL;DR: A comprehensive meta-analysis of 209 phenological time series from 145 breeding populations shows that, on average, seabird populations worldwide have not adjusted their breeding seasons over time or in response to sea surface temperature between 1952 and 2015.

TL;DR: The different energetic requirements related to the birds' incubation and chick-provisioning pattern seem to be the driving force behind the observed spatial segregation, with males make use of highly productive areas to prepare for subsequent fasting periods whereas females forage in coastal waters for themselves and for the chicks during the subsequent guard stage.

TL;DR: Investigating the foraging behaviour of three closely related and sympatrically breeding fulmarine petrels in a seasonally highly variable Antarctic environment found being a generalist may be key to finding mobile prey - even though this increases the potential for competition within and among sympatric species.

TL;DR: The data emphasize the importance of small-scale, wind-induced patterns in prey availability on foraging success, a widely neglected aspect in seabird foraging studies, which might become more important with increasing changes in climatic variability.