Urbanization hits tropical bird diversity harder, study finds

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim under review, reported by Phys.org on October fourteenth, twenty twenty-six: researchers at McGill University say urbanization is weakening one of Earth's most enduring ecological patterns.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe pattern is that biodiversity increases toward the tropics.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's called the latitudinal diversity gradient, and it has held for ages. Until we paved over it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe study finds the toll on bird diversity is bigger in the tropics than at other latitudes.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the birds with the best address take the worst hit. It's a rule that outlasted everything, and a car park is ending it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA car park.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFirst the gradient goes, Hank, and then the pigeons hold a vote.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe study is real and the finding is sourced, so the claim is not bonkers. The pattern weakening is the bonkers part.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI rate it Mostly Bonkers. The birds were not consulted on the dial.