NOVEMBER 5, 2020

by University of Maryland

https://phys.org/news/2020-11-global-scale-animal-ecology-reveals-behavioral.html

Using a new large-scale data archive of animal movement studies, an international team including University of Maryland biologists found that animals are responding in unexpected ways to climate change. The archive contains data from studies across the global Arctic and sub-Arctic, an enormous region that is experiencing some of the most dramatic effects of global warming, including animal declines.https://9972b52d7057796097f1e1b359d8ac8e.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html

After developing the archive, the researchers used it to conduct three case studies that revealed surprising patterns and associations between climate change and the behavior of golden eagles, bears, caribou, moose and wolves. This work demonstrates both the feasibility and importance of studying animal ecology on…