Environmental News Network: The climatic conditions needed by 285 species of land birds in the United States have moved rapidly between 1950 and 2011 as a result of climate change, according to a recent paper published in Global Change Biology.
Our goal was to look at the climate where these birds were observed breeding over this period and determine where that sweet spot was moving as the climate changed in this period, says first author Brooke Bateman, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of WisconsinMadison....