While the Arctic Warms, Migrating Birds Pay the Price in the Tropics (4 of 6) (IMAGE)

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While the Arctic Warms, Migrating Birds Pay the Price in the Tropics (4 of 6)

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Breeding red knot in Russia. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 13, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.A. van Gils at NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in Den Burg, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "Body shrinkage due to Arctic warming reduces red knot fitness in tropical wintering range"

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Jan van de Kam

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