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The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: February 19th, 2016, 6:00pm UTC

grrlscientist writes: A recently published study reveals that climate change can cause birds' eggs to hatch early. In addition to creating warmer temperatures that trigger early embryonic development in birds, climate change also increases the frequency and duration of heat waves. Thus, warming temperatures are leading to asynchronous hatching of individual eggs within a clutch and increased chick mortality, particularly for birds breeding in the tropics and semi-tropics, and in tropical deserts.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Heat+Is+On%3A+Climate+Change+Causes+Birds+To+Hatch+Early%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1TqWgng"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F02%2F19%2F2021226%2Fthe-heat-is-on-climate-change-causes-birds-to-hatch-early%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/19/2021226/the-heat-is-on-climate-change-causes-birds-to-hatch-early?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/19/2021226/the-heat-is-on-climate-change-causes-birds-to-hatch-early?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/70z_GGpVRbc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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