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Gut capacity limits bird's ability to adapt to rapid climate change
2014-04-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate. And he believes that most other animals are also limited in a similar way. Scott McWilliams, URI professor of natural resources science, says that spare capacity -- the extent to which animals can modify their physiology to deal with ecological...
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