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dc.contributor.authorSimmonds, Emily Grace
dc.contributor.authorCole, Ella F
dc.contributor.authorSheldon, Ben C
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-23T13:52:22Z
dc.date.available2020-01-23T13:52:22Z
dc.date.created2019-09-09T14:19:08Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0021-8790
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2637694
dc.description.abstract1. Changes in the timing of life‐history events (phenology) are a widespread consequence of climate change. Predicting population resilience requires knowledge of how phenology is likely to change over time, which can be gained by identifying the specific environmental cues that drive phenological events. Cue identification is often achieved with statistical testing of candidate cues. As the number of methods used to generate predictions increases, assessing the predictive accuracy of different approaches has become necessary. 2. This study aims to (a) provide an empirical illustration of the predictive ability of five commonly applied statistical methods for cue identification (absolute and relative sliding time window analyses, penalized signal regression, climate sensitivity profiles and a growing degree‐day model) and (b) discuss approaches for implementing cue identification methods in different systems. 3. Using a dataset of mean clutch initiation timing in wild great tits (Parus major), we explored how the days of the year identified as most important, and the aggregate statistic identified as a cue, differed between statistical methods and with respect to the time span of data used. Each method's predictive capacity was tested using cross‐validation and assessed for robustness to varying sample size. 4. We show that the identified critical time window of cue sensitivity was consistent across four of the five methods. The accuracy and precision of predictions differed by method with penalized signal regression resulting in the most accurate and most precise predictions in our case. Accuracy was maximal for near‐future predictions and showed a relationship with time. The difference between predictions and observations systematically shifted across the study from preceding observations to lagging. 5. This temporal trend in prediction error suggests that the current statistical tools either fail to capture a key component of the cue–phenology relationship, or the relationship itself is changing through time in our system. These two influences need to be teased apart if we are to generate realistic predictions of phenological change. We recommend future phenological studies to challenge the idea of a static cue–phenology relationship and should cross‐validate results across multiple time periods.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherWileynb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleCue identification in phenology: A case study of the predictive performance of current statistical toolsnb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.volume88nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of Animal Ecologynb_NO
dc.source.issue9nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1365-2656.13038
dc.identifier.cristin1722877
dc.description.localcode© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.nb_NO
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cristin.unitnameInstitutt for matematiske fag
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