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

这项长期研究项目考察了气候变化对美国东北部北部阔叶林中候鸟繁殖的潜在影响。目标是确定观察到的行为和人口统计调整是否足以补偿气候引起的鸟类栖息地质量的变化。通过记录气候在时间和空间上的差异，并通过长期的食物补充实验，研究人员将检查鸟类对气候变化做出的关键选择。这些选择对个体所生后代的数量以及个体的存活率都有重要影响。该项目在新泽西州的哈伯德布鲁克实验森林进行。在当今快速变化的世界中，森林和栖息在森林中的鸟类面临着大量的环境挑战。由于候鸟是气候变化、生物多样性和公共土地健康状况的敏锐指标，这项研究的结果将为政策制定者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，结果将出现在大众媒体、公共电视上，并在不同的公共场所展示。该项目包括针对本科生和研究生以及中小学教师的强有力的培训内容。

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.