Climate and the match or mismatch between predator requirements and resource availability

Climate influences a population through a variety of processes, including reproduction, growth, migration patterns and phenology. Climate may operate either directly through metabolic and reproductive processes or indirectly through prey, predators, and competitors. One mechanism that may be particularly important, and which is the focus of this review, is the role of climate in affecting the reproductive success of a predator through its effect on the relative timing of food requirement and food availability during early life stages. This principle -the match or mismatch of predators' requirement with resource availability -originated in the marine literature, where it initially referred to how growth and…

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