Godwits adjust to climate change – humans must too

Spotlight: highlights a paper in current issue

Climate change will test animals’ abilities to adjust and adapt to a rapidly changing world. So, if you heard that shorebirds were able to adjust their reproductive behaviour in response to climate change, you’d think that was a good thing, right? So would I. In this issue of Wader Study, Nathan Senner and colleagues, studying Black-tailed Godwits Limosa limosa limosa in Dutch meadows, illustrate that in years with extreme weather godwits can exhibit breeding behaviours beyond what has been documented
historically. There is just one catch – if we humans don’t adjust our behaviour in tandem, no amount of adjustment
on the part of shorebirds will suffice.

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