How seabirds are affected by climate change

Date:

May 28, 2015

Source:

Uni Research

Summary:

Collaboration between ecologists and climate researchers has generated fascinating new insight into how seabirds are affected by climate change.

Until recently, ecologists used a specific set of methods to study the relationship between animals and climate change, one of which is the NAO index (North Atlantic Oscillation), which measures differences in air pressure between Portugal and Iceland.

If no correlation was found here, some ecologists refuted that climate change is causing the observed changes.

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