Climatic conditions are shifting towards the poles due to climate change. Earlier studies have shown that species are responding to this by changing their i) phenology (e.g. advancing their reproductive season), ii) distribution ranges towards cooler areas, iii) morphology for thermoregulary reasons or iv) habitat selection. Typically, these responses species exhibit have been studied one at time and the combined effects of two or more simultaneously operating responses of species have very rarely been examined. This weakens our holistic understanding of the climate driven impacts on nature. The aim of this project is to understand how responses to climate change interact with one another, whether there are differences in the magnitude of these various modes of responding and whether they differ spatially on a continental scale. To achieve these goals, I will use the most comprehensive large-scale long-term bird monitoring datasets available in Europe, covering the past 50 years.

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