Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Tropical birds live longer than temperate counterparts



Date:  March 7, 2018
Source:  American Ornithological Society Publications Office

An international research team has found strong evidence that passerine birds near the equator live longer than their higher latitude counterparts.

Their findings, published today in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances, underscore the pervasiveness of broad latitudinal patterns in avian life history. The article summarizes six years of bird survey results from a tropical forest site near Manaus, at the center of the Amazon basin, and compares the Manaus results with findings from eleven other sites over a latitude span of more than sixty degrees across the Americas.



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