Berlin, Germany & Ithaca, N.Y.–An international team of scientists reviewed more than 10,000 published climate change studies and has reached a sobering conclusion. Birds and other animals cannot adapt fast enough to keep pace with climate change, throwing species survival in doubt. These results were recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications.

“Our research focused on birds because complete data on other groups were scarce,” says lead author Viktoriia Radchuk at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin. She adds: “We demonstrate that in temperate regions, the rising temperatures are associated with a shift in the timing of biological events to earlier dates.”

These biological events include hibernation, reproduction…