Global pattern of nest predation is disrupted by climate change in shorebirds

No longer a safe haven Many biological patterns have a latitudinal component. One long-recognized pattern is that predation rates are higher at lower latitudes. This may explain why many migratory birds travel thousands of miles from the tropics to the poles to breed. Looking across thousands of rec...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Kubelka, Vojtěch, Šálek, Miroslav, Tomkovich, Pavel, Végvári, Zsolt, Freckleton, Robert P., Székely, Tamás
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2018
Subjects:
Arctic
Climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat8695
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.aat8695
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.aat8695
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Summary:No longer a safe haven Many biological patterns have a latitudinal component. One long-recognized pattern is that predation rates are higher at lower latitudes. This may explain why many migratory birds travel thousands of miles from the tropics to the poles to breed. Looking across thousands of records, Kubelka et al. found that climate change seems to have altered this fundamental pattern. In shorebirds, at least, predation rates on nests are now higher in the Arctic than in the tropics. Science , this issue p. 680

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