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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ftdeakinunifig:oai:figshare.com:article/20882461 2024-06-23T07:49:43+00:00 Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range JA Van Gils S Lisovski T Lok W Meissner A Ozarowska J De Fouw E Rakhimberdiev MY Soloviev T Piersma Marcel Klaassen 2016-05-13T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084781 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Body_shrinkage_due_to_Arctic_warming_reduces_red_knot_fitness_in_tropical_wintering_range/20882461 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30084781 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Body_shrinkage_due_to_Arctic_warming_reduces_red_knot_fitness_in_tropical_wintering_range/20882461 All Rights Reserved ADVANCEMENT BERGMANNS RULE CLIMATE-CHANGE GROWTH Multidisciplinary Sciences PRESSURE Science & Technology Science & Technology - Other Topics SEA-ICE SHOREBIRDS SIZE Animal Migration Animals Arctic Regions Beak Bivalvia Body Size Breeding Charadriiformes Food Chain Genetic Fitness Global Warming Malnutrition Seasons 050101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology School of Life and Environmental Sciences MD Multidisciplinary 4102 Ecological applications Text Journal contribution 2016 ftdeakinunifig 2024-06-06T01:20:45Z 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 Climate change Global warming Red Knot Sea ice DRO - Deakin Research Online Arctic |
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ADVANCEMENT BERGMANNS RULE CLIMATE-CHANGE GROWTH Multidisciplinary Sciences PRESSURE Science & Technology Science & Technology - Other Topics SEA-ICE SHOREBIRDS SIZE Animal Migration Animals Arctic Regions Beak Bivalvia Body Size Breeding Charadriiformes Food Chain Genetic Fitness Global Warming Malnutrition Seasons 050101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology School of Life and Environmental Sciences MD Multidisciplinary 4102 Ecological applications JA Van Gils S Lisovski T Lok W Meissner A Ozarowska J De Fouw E Rakhimberdiev MY Soloviev T Piersma Marcel Klaassen Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range |
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ADVANCEMENT BERGMANNS RULE CLIMATE-CHANGE GROWTH Multidisciplinary Sciences PRESSURE Science & Technology Science & Technology - Other Topics SEA-ICE SHOREBIRDS SIZE Animal Migration Animals Arctic Regions Beak Bivalvia Body Size Breeding Charadriiformes Food Chain Genetic Fitness Global Warming Malnutrition Seasons 050101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology School of Life and Environmental Sciences MD Multidisciplinary 4102 Ecological applications |
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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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JA Van Gils S Lisovski T Lok W Meissner A Ozarowska J De Fouw E Rakhimberdiev MY Soloviev T Piersma Marcel Klaassen |
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JA Van Gils S Lisovski T Lok W Meissner A Ozarowska J De Fouw E Rakhimberdiev MY Soloviev T Piersma Marcel Klaassen |
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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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Arctic Climate change Global warming Red Knot Sea ice |
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