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How individual animals respond to climate change is key to whether populations will persist or go extinct. Many species are shifting their ranges as the environment warms, but up to now the mechanisms underlying this have been unclear.For Europe’s mo

A studys results were encouraging, but the change in the seabirds habits posed a new problem.

<ul> <li>New research finds that individual behavioural flexibility and not evolutionary selection is driving the northward shift of Balearic shearwaters.</li> <li>The findings were revealed through a decade-long study which tagged individual birds.</li> <li>The results indicate that individual animals may have greater behavioural flexibility to respond to climate change impacts than previously thought.</li> </ul>