Review article. Studying climate effects on ecology through the use of climate indices: the North Atlantic Oscillation, El Niño Southern Oscillation and beyond

By Nils Chr. Stenseth, Geir Ottersen, J. Hurrell, A. Mysterud, M. Lima, Kung-Sik Chan, N. Yoccoz, B. Ådlandsvik. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change

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Food web structure in the high Arctic Canada Basin: evidence from δ13C and δ15N analysis (2005, neutral): “Changes in ice cover and primary productivity would be expected with the increasing trend of global climate warming (Stenseth et al. 2003).”
Environmental variability and fisheries: what can models do? (2008, background): “However, Stenseth et al. (2003) consider this even as an advantage under certain circumstances (see below).”
Bird migration times, climate change, and changing population sizes (2008, result): “…times follows nicely from the findings of several recent studies, which have found that climate indices, such as the SOI and NAOI, may explain broad ecological patterns better than local climate variables such as temperature (Stenseth et al., 2003; Wang & Schimel, 2003; Hallett et al., 2004).”
Long Term Variability in the Structure of Kelp Communities in Northern Chile and the 1997–98 ENSO (2006, methodology): “When in situ records of oceanographic variables were discontinued, large-scale climatic indexes were used, which permitted description of oceanographic conditions, and for making approximations of ecological processes that acted on smaller scales ( Stenseth et al., 2003 ).”
Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries (2009, background): “…include: changes in air and water temperatures, precipitation, salinity, ocean circulation and mixing, river flow, nutrient levels, sea and lake levels, ice cover, glacial melt, storm frequency and intensity, and flooding (Barange 2002; Stenseth et al. 2003; Lehodey et al. 2006; Brander 2007).”
Climate‐dependent allocation of resources to secondary sexual traits in red deer (2005, methodology): “As an index for winter weather, we used the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO; Hurrell 1995, Hurrell et al. 2003, Stenseth et al. 2003) for the previous winter T ot al v ol um e (m l) OIKOS 111:2 (2005) 247 (NAO-previous winter) and in year of birth (cohort NAO).”
From climate change to population change: the need to consider annual life cycles (2006, background): “Although many important insights can be gained by relating climate and population indices (Stenseth et al., 2002, 2003), the results of such studies are often to be considered as phenomenological rather than mechanistic.”
Beyond long-term averages: making biological sense of a rapidly changing world (2014, background): “A key and often overlooked consideration is that organisms (including humans) are not directly affected by climate, per se, but rather more proximately are affected by weather, which ultimately is trained by climate (but see [18-20]).”
Timing of seasonal migration in mule deer: effects of climate, plant phenology, and life‐history characteristics (2011, background): “In addition, phenological patterns of seasonal migration are likely to be affected by climate change (Walther et al. 2002, Stenseth et al. 2003, Bolger et al. 2008).”
Using large-scale climate indices in climate change ecology studies (2004, background): “The manner in which El Niño, the NAO and other teleconnection indices are defined, as well as locations of the associated web sites and time-series, have been detailed in earlier reviews (e.g., Hurrell et al. 2003; Stenseth et al. 2003, and references therein).”
Responses to climate change in avian migration time - microevolution versus phenotypic plasticity (2007, background): “For long-distance migrants (e.g. those wintering south of the Sahara), climatic conditions at the wintering areas correlate less closely with climatic conditions at the breeding areas (Stenseth et al. 2003).”
Reproductive senescence in female Soay sheep: variation across traits and contributions of individual ageing and selective disappearance (2013, background): “…namely population density (Clutton-Brock et al. 1996) and climatic conditions (Forchhammer et al. 2001), on reproduction by including population density in the August prior to reproduction (PPD), and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) for the previous winter (Stenseth et al. 2003) in all models.”
Timing of spring migration in birds: long-term trends, North Atlantic Oscillation and the significance of different migration routes (2005, neutral): “Even though the effect of NAO is most pronounced in coastal Europe, NAO has climatic effects all across Europe to the Middle East (Visbeck et al. 2001, Stenseth et al. 2003).”
Weather packages: finding the right scale and composition of climate in ecology (2005, background): “This weather-feature integrating aspect relates to what we suggest to call the weather composition component of climate (Elton 1924; Stenseth et al . 2003; Mysterud et al . 2003; Hallett et al . 2004).”
A review of the population dynamics of mule deer and black‐tailed deer Odocoileus hemionus in North America (2013, background): “The mean value of the southern oscillation index is correlated with regional weather patterns in the western United States (Stenseth et al. 2003).”