Happy to see this out! Led by Nicole Adams, we ask if morphological shifts in birds driven by climate change are accompanied by genetic shifts - evidence for adaptation? Yes for bill size: "large bill" alleles decrease over time! Not so much for body size. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Background Rapid morphological change is emerging as a consequence of climate change in many systems. It is intuitive to hypothesize that temporal morphological trends are driven by the same selective...
