LTREB-Renewal: Collaborative Research: Behavioral and demographic responses of migratory birds to climate change

这个长期研究项目研究了气候变化对美国东北部北部阔叶林候鸟繁殖的潜在影响。目的是确定观察到的行为和人口调整是否足以补偿气候引起的鸟类栖息地质量变化。通过记录时间和空间上的气候差异，并通过长期的食物补充实验，研究人员将研究鸟类在应对气候变化时做出的关键选择。这些选择对个体产生的后代数量和个体存活率都有重要影响。该项目正在新罕布什尔州的哈伯德布鲁克实验森林进行。在当今瞬息万变的世界，森林和栖息在其中的鸟类面临着众多的环境挑战。因为候鸟是气候变化、生物多样性和公共土地健康的敏锐指示器，这项研究的结果将为政策和决策者以及保护工作提供信息。这项研究的数据将提供给世界各地的研究人员，其结果将在大众媒体、公共电视和各种公共场所进行专题报道。该项目包括为本科生和研究生以及中小学教师提供强有力的培训内容。

This long-term research project examines the potential impacts of climate change on migratory birds breeding in northern hardwood forests of the northeastern US. The goals are to determine whether observed behavioral and demographic adjustments are adequate to compensate for climate-induced changes in bird habitat quality. By documenting climate differences over time and space and through long-term food supplementation experiments, the researchers will examine key choices that birds make in response to climatic variation. These choices have important effects on the number of offspring an individual produces as well as on individual survival. The project is being conducted in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH.In today's rapidly changing world, forests and the birds that inhabit them face a multitude of environmental challenges. Because migratory birds are keen indicators of changing climate, biodiversity, and the health of public lands, results from this study will inform policy and decision makers as well as conservation efforts. Data from this study will be made available to researchers around the world, and results will be featured in the popular press, on public television, and presented in diverse public venues. The project includes strong training components for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for primary and secondary school teachers.