Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range
Consequences conferred at a distance Migratory animals have adapted to life in multiple, sometimes very different environments. Thus, they may show particularly complex responses as climates rapidly change. Van Gils et al. show that body size in red knot birds has been decreasing as their Arctic bre...
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craaas:10.1126/science.aad6351 2024-06-23T07:49:48+00:00 Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range van Gils, Jan A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, Tamar Meissner, Włodzimierz Ożarowska, Agnieszka de Fouw, Jimmy Rakhimberdiev, Eldar Soloviev, Mikhail Y. Piersma, Theunis Klaassen, Marcel NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) BirdLife Netherlands World Wildlife Fund-Netherlands Australian Research Council 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6351 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aad6351 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 352, issue 6287, page 819-821 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2016 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6351 2024-05-30T08:05:52Z Consequences conferred at a distance Migratory animals have adapted to life in multiple, sometimes very different environments. Thus, they may show particularly complex responses as climates rapidly change. Van Gils et al. show that body size in red knot birds has been decreasing as their Arctic breeding ground warms (see the Perspective by Wikelski and Tertitski). However, the real toll of this change appears not in the rapidly changing northern part of their range but in the apparently more stable tropical wintering range. The resulting smaller, short-billed birds have difficulty reaching their major food source, deeply buried mollusks, which decreases the survival of birds born during particularly warm years. Science , this issue p. 819 see also p. 775 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Red Knot AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Arctic Science 352 6287 819 821 |
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Consequences conferred at a distance Migratory animals have adapted to life in multiple, sometimes very different environments. Thus, they may show particularly complex responses as climates rapidly change. Van Gils et al. show that body size in red knot birds has been decreasing as their Arctic breeding ground warms (see the Perspective by Wikelski and Tertitski). However, the real toll of this change appears not in the rapidly changing northern part of their range but in the apparently more stable tropical wintering range. The resulting smaller, short-billed birds have difficulty reaching their major food source, deeply buried mollusks, which decreases the survival of birds born during particularly warm years. Science , this issue p. 819 see also p. 775 |
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van Gils, Jan A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, Tamar Meissner, Włodzimierz Ożarowska, Agnieszka de Fouw, Jimmy Rakhimberdiev, Eldar Soloviev, Mikhail Y. Piersma, Theunis Klaassen, Marcel |
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van Gils, Jan A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, Tamar Meissner, Włodzimierz Ożarowska, Agnieszka de Fouw, Jimmy Rakhimberdiev, Eldar Soloviev, Mikhail Y. Piersma, Theunis Klaassen, Marcel Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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van Gils, Jan A. Lisovski, Simeon Lok, Tamar Meissner, Włodzimierz Ożarowska, Agnieszka de Fouw, Jimmy Rakhimberdiev, Eldar Soloviev, Mikhail Y. Piersma, Theunis Klaassen, Marcel |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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body shrinkage due to arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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