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The effects of climate change on avian migratory patterns and the dispersal of commercial poultry diseases in Canada - Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2013

C.D. PATTERSON  and
M.T. GUERIN
C.D. PATTERSON*
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
M.T. GUERIN
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd E, Guelph ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
*
Corresponding author: charla@uoguelph.ca
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Abstract

Many birds are able to modify migratory strategies when selection favours an adjustment. Climate change is provoking a range of responses from avian migrants and affecting their relationship with other biological systems. This is the first part of a two-part review that aims to summarise the available literature on the impact of climate change on migratory birds and how those changes will subsequently affect the spread of poultry diseases. Part I reviews the effects of climate change on the ecology of avian migrants; it was found that climate change has evoked several changes in birds, including changes in avian phenology, poleward shifts in avian distributions, modification of migratory distances, direction and activity, and alterations to movement patterns and destinations. Based on predictions for future climatic trends, climate change will continue to favour changes in avian migratory strategies and behaviour, emphasising the importance of investigating how these adjustments will affect the relationship between avian migrants and bird-borne pathogens.

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wild birdsmigratory birdsclimate changepoultry diseasespathogen

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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 17 - 26
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Copyright © World's Poultry Science Association 2013

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