Researchers Find That Mountain Birds Climb With Increasing Temperatures

Researchers Find That Mountain Birds Climb With Increasing Temperatures

5 MARCH 2014

Recent research has found that as tropical temperatures climb as a result of climate change, mountain-dwelling tropical birds are doing the same.

While climate change is not a new concept, the study conducted in Papua New Guinea aimed to examine the virtually unexplored question of climate change’s effects on birds, according to Benjamin Freeman grad and Alexandra Class Freeman, a staff researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

 

Click here to read more: http://cornellsun.com/blog/2014/03/05/researchers-find-that-mountain-birds-climb-with-increasing-temperatures/

Source: Cornell Daily Sun

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