Using 70 years of data from an annual Cape Cod census, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) Professor of Biology Ivan Valiela and BUMP graduate student Jennifer Bowen have found that rising temperatures have altered the composition of winter bird species on Cape Cod. Their results, along with similar observations in other species and locations, suggest that during the last two decades global warming has led to massive and widespread biogeographic shifts... more »
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