Sentences with phrase «spring food availability»

The model suggests that there might have been a switch in the relative importance of these two effects in recent years, with spring food availability becoming a more important determinant than winter temperature of population size.

Already in 2006 a group of four researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO - KNAW) reported in a publication in Nature that they could attribute strong population declines for the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) to a climate change - induced trophic temporal mismatch, causing the birds to miss the peak in spring food availability their successful nesting depended on.

Not exact matches

The female holds the sperm till spring and then times it with food availability.