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SUBMITTER: Jirinec V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8589309 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jirinec Vitek V Burner Ryan C RC Amaral Bruna R BR Bierregaard Richard O RO Fernández-Arellano Gilberto G Hernández-Palma Angélica A Johnson Erik I EI Lovejoy Thomas E TE Powell Luke L LL Rutt Cameron L CL Wolfe Jared D JD Stouffer Philip C PC
Science advances 20211112 46
Warming from climate change is expected to reduce body size of endotherms, but studies from temperate systems have produced equivocal results. Over four decades, we collected morphometric data on a nonmigratory understory bird community within Amazonian primary rainforest that is experiencing increasingly extreme climate. All 77 species showed lower mean mass since the early 1980s—nearly half with 95% confidence. A third of species concomitantly increased wing length, driving a decrease in mass: ...[more]