Publication: Salon
UCLA Expert: Morgan Tingley: Associate Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Synopsis: A warming planet is slowly advancing the arrival of spring – an alarming trend for the hatching of birds. A new study, led by Tingley, found that birds are producing fewer chicks when they start breeding too early or too late in the spring season.
UCLA News: As the start of spring begins earlier and earlier, the researchers anticipate that this trend will only worsen, generating a large-scale impact on many bird populations that could even lead to extinction.
Read more at Salon.
