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A half-century of nesting and feeding data for the tree swallow finds that lower insect biomass (which declined by 62% overall) results in smaller birds and a decoupling of reproduction timing from peak insect abundance. The authors call the latter effect "trophic decay".
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2607714123 (not open access)
#Science #ClimateChange #Birds #Swallows #Insects #TrophicDecay #Ecology