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Animal Migrations Track Climate Change

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Many species are known to have changed their migration routes in response to the changing climate. They now include mule deer and Bewick’s swans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Scott Hirschberger.

0:38.3

Climate change is altering the migration routes of animals worldwide.

0:42.3

Here's a look at new research on how two species have been affected.

0:46.3

First, mule deer.

0:48.3

Every spring in Wyoming, vegetation first appears at lower altitudes before progressing up the

0:55.2

mountainside. Migrating mule deer follow and forage on this green wave. But as a changing climate

1:00.9

leads to more frequent and more severe droughts, the greenery is not as bountiful as it used to be.

1:06.6

For her Ph.D. research at the University of Wyoming, Ellen Aiken's tracked mule deer as they surfed

1:12.3

the green wave.

1:13.3

The greenup lasted across the landscape for about half as long in drought years in comparison

1:20.0

to wet years.

1:21.3

And also the order of green up along these routes were less sequential.

1:26.3

So in essence, drought compresses and reshuffles the green wave

1:31.2

and just makes it so that this forging bonanza

1:34.9

that deer depend on in their spring migration

1:37.9

is really compressed in time.

1:40.4

And although the deer were able to keep up

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