Date: April 5, 2018
Source: Universidad de Barcelona
Finding food to feed baby birds
is getting more and more difficult for seabirds due the effects of climate
change, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate
Change, carried out by an international team with the participation of the
lecturers Jacob González-Solís and Raül Ramos, from the Faculty of Biology and
the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona.
According to the study, seabirds
have not adopted their breeding cycle to the new climate conditions, which are
marked by global change. In a future time, the progressive rise of sea
temperatures could create a lack of synchrony between the breeding and feeding
period and the stages in which preys are more abundant in oceans.
The new study is the global
result of the collaboration of a big international team of experts on seabirds,
which is led by the University of Edinburgh, the Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology (CEH) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), from the United
Kingdom. The new study, with the support of the Natural Environment Research
Council of the United Kingdom, analysed the breeding patterns of sixty-two
seabird species from 1952 to 2016, a period that has been marked by the
significant rise of temperature in the sea.
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