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    ‘Pristine’ is Not Protection: 27-year Study Links Hotter, Drier Conditions to Decline in Rainforest Bird Populations

    A team led by Michigan Technological University researcher Jared Wolfe is the first to uncover why long-lived rainforest birds are declining in an untouched environment historically considered a stable refuge. Their findings are alarming. The results of the team's 27-year study, "Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests," were recently published in Science Advances. They reveal that rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall have played a key role in drastically reduced survival rates in dozens of bird species — in some individual species by as much as 50%.

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