Partners: University of Exeter, University of Edinburgh, British Trust for Ornithology, Ken Smith
Summary: Some animals can adapt to climatic change by altering timing of spring migration or emergence and the onset of breeding. In some species this has been shown to cause a mismatch between consumers (birds) and prey (caterpillars), when phenological changes differ between species. At the scale of Britain we are involved in various analyses investigating spatial variation in caterpillar availability (prey) and bird (predator) breeding parameters in relation to climate and its population consequences.