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I don't have access to the article, and there really isn't anything given in the abstract to actually link the change in body size to global warming. I hope the
by allovernow 7y ago
I don't have access to the article, and there really isn't anything given in the abstract to actually link the change in body size to global warming. I hope the article does a better job than "warmer temperatures are expected to reduce bird size and here are a bunch of bird species which have gotten smaller over the last 4 decades, therefore climate change."
- throwaway5752 7y agoIt is a scientific paper, not an "article". The abstract is pretty clear summarizing the findings and I'm not sure what you would otherwise expect from the abstract of a paper. When I search for the paper's title, I found the full text on the third result https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/610329v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/610329v1.full edit: leaving as is but, "research article" or "paper", i was replying to the common usage meaning of "article". Anyway, my point about the abstract stands and the rest of the paper supports it well.
- vixen99 7y agoIt is indeed an article though you and the comment you're 'correcting' leave out the word 'research'. Articles submitted by scholars and scientists with their groundbreaking research are termed as research articles. The article describes a model of what might be as in climate models. As you say, we also use the word 'paper' with 'peer-reviewed' if it's published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- there_the_and 7y agoA scientific paper is a type of article.
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoI think the money finding from the abstract is that temperatres above 40C predicts changes in bird size and wingspan length over an n > 70,000 specimens.