Breeding flexibility helps migratory songbirds adjust to climate warming
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Phenological mismatches, or a mistiming between creatures and the prey and plants they eat, is one of the biggest known impacts of climate change on ecological systems. But a Dartmouth-led study finds that one common migratory songbird has a natural flexibility in its breeding time that has helped stave off mismatches, at least for now.