Are declining populations of wild geese in China ‘prisoners’ of their natural habitats?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.037
Abstract: While wild goose populations wintering in North America and Europe are mostly flourishing by exploiting farmland, those in China (which seem confined to natural wetlands) are generally declining. Telemetry devices were attached to 67 wintering… read more here.
Keywords: declining populations; china prisoners; populations wild; geese china ... See more keywords
Lizards from warm and declining populations are born with extremely short telomeres
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201371119
Abstract: Significance This study unraveled the impacts of accelerated aging as a corollary of climate-driven population decline. We found a transgenerational accumulation of telomere shortening implying that offspring were already born “old.” We suggest that this… read more here.
Keywords: warm declining; born extremely; populations born; lizards warm ... See more keywords