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Bonjour à tous,
Céline Teplitsky
Birds response to climate change: the role of plasticity and microevolution
Changes in phenology are playing a major role in responses to climate change. In order to understand and predict these responses, we need to evaluate their origin and evolutionary potential. This is all the more important as plasticity and microevolution have different pace and limits. Plasticity of laying date in Blue tits is a textbook example of phenological plasticity. Using long term monitoring in wild populations of blue tits we assessed the extent to which plasticity can explain the recent advances in phenology and how well we can predict these responses