Aim Migratory birds are under threat by climate change. Successfully conserving them requires knowing which climatic factors drive changes in their migratory behaviour. Weather conditions may directly or indirectly affect the temporally disjointed life history stages of migratory birds, including the breeding, roosting and nonbreeding stages. However, the influences of these broad‐scale patterns are often not studied together....

Organisms have been shifting their timing of life history events (phenology) in response to changes in the emergence of resources induced by climate change. Yet understanding these patterns at large scales and across long time series is often challenging. Here we used the US weather surveillance radar network to collect data on the timing of communal swallow and martin roosts and evaluate the scale of phenological shifts and i...

Redd (nest) surveys for resident brook trout ( S alvelinus fontinalis ) were conducted annually in a mountain lake in northern New York for 11 years with multiple surveys conducted during the spawning season in eight of those years. Repeated surveys throughout the spawning season allowed us to fit an individually based parametric model and estimate the day of year on which spawning was initiated, reached its midpoint, and ende...