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University of Michigan: Smallest Shifting Fastest - Bird Species Body Size Predicts Rate of Change in a Warming World
May 09, 2023
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:

Birds across the Americas are getting smaller and longer-winged as the world warms, and the smallest-bodied species are changing the fastest.

That's the main finding of a new University of Michigan-led study published online May 8 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study combines data from two previously published papers . . .

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