Long-term monitoring programs reveal the impacts of weather and climate change on the functional diversity of birds on islands

Jan Bernhard Kalusche; Gregor Scheiffarth; Lucie Kuczynski; Katrin Böhning-Gaese; Susanne Fritz; Christian Hof

doi:10.3897/arphapreprints.e170340

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doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e170340

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Jan Bernhard Kalusche - Corresponding author

Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Chair of Global Change Ecology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Technical University Munich, Department for Terrestrical Ecology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany

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Gregor Scheiffarth

Nationalpark Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

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Lucie Kuczynski

Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), School of Mathematics and Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

IRD, Nouméa, New Caledonia (Fr)

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Katrin Böhning-Gaese

Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany

Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

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Susanne Fritz

Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany

Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Jena, Germany

www.idiv.de

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Christian Hof

Chair of Global Change Ecology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Technical University Munich, Department for Terrestrical Ecology, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany

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Author contributions

Jan B. Kalusche contributed to the conceptualisation, led the data curation, formal analysis, investigation, methodology development and visualisation. He also provided resources, drafted the original manuscript and led the review and editing process. Gregor Scheiffarth supported data curation and methodology, as well as validation. He also provided resources and contributed to review and editing. Lucie Kuczynski supported validation and contributed to the review and editing process. Katrin Böhning-Gaese supported the conceptualisation, assisted with the acquisition of funding, and contributed to the review and editing. Susanne A. Fritz contributed to the conceptualisation and acquisition of funding, supported the methodology, provided resources, jointly administered the project, provided supervision, contributed to the original draft and participated in the review and editing process. Christian Hof contributed to the conceptualisation and acquired funding, supported the methodology, provided resources, jointly administered the project, provided lead supervision, contributed to the original draft and participated in the review and editing.

Conflict of interest

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Disclaimer: This article is (co-)authored by any of the Editors-in-Chief, Managing Editors or their deputies in this journal.

Supporting agencies

This study was supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) via the DynaCom Research Unit (FOR2716; grants HO3952/3-2, HI 848/26–2, HI 848/29–1). S.A.F. gratefully acknowledges the support of iDiv funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG– _FZT 118, 202548816), as well as support by the Leibniz Competition of the Leibniz Association (P52/2017).

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