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Birds Outpace Climate Change to Avoid Extinction
2013-07-10 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study has shed light on the potential of birds to survive in the face of climate change. In the analysis, based on more than fifty years' detailed study of a population of great tits near Oxford, UK, a team of scientists were able to make predictions about how the birds could cope with a changing climate in the future. They found that for small, short-lived birds like the great tit, evolution can work fast enough for genetic adaptation to keep pace with a changing environment. However, even...
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