{"id":149364,"date":"2021-11-27T21:36:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=149364"},"modified":"2021-11-27T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T16:06:44","slug":"new-research-how-climate-change-causes-divorce-among-albatrosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-research-how-climate-change-causes-divorce-among-albatrosses\/","title":{"rendered":"New research: How climate change causes \u2018divorce\u2019 among albatrosses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has provided evidence of the effect of environmental conditions on the longevity of <strong>relationships among a population of albatrosses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the report suggest?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It suggests that <strong>environmental conditions cause splits<\/strong> between black-browed albatrosses in the South Atlantic, which otherwise have long-term monogamous relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cdivorce rate\u201d in the study population varied substantially across years and was directly modulated by environmental variability at different times.<\/p>\n<p>-Higher \u201cdivorce rates\u201d were recorded in lower-quality years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How exactly can a changing environment cause these birds to split up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Split between albatrosses partners, in long-lived monogamous sea populations, is an <strong>adaptive strategy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>-It is triggered by breeding failure and also for some reproductive benefits, particularly for females which are more likely to find new partners and attain a higher breeding success.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Albatross:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) are large flying seabirds. Their species of the genus Diomedea (great albatrosses) have the longest wingspans of any extant birds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Range: <\/strong>They are found widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IUCN status<\/strong>&#8211; Of the 22 species of albatrosses recognized by the IUCN, all are listed as at some level of concern.<\/p>\n<p>-Critically endangered-3; Endangered-5; Near threatened-7; Vulnerable-7.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Threat- <\/strong>Numbers of albatrosses have declined in the past due to <strong>harvesting for feathers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-They are also threatened by <strong>introduced species<\/strong>, like rats and feral cats that attack eggs, chicks, and nesting adults.<\/p>\n<p>-By <strong>pollution<\/strong> and serious decline in fish stocks in many regions largely due to <strong>overfishing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>Longline fishing<\/strong>-It poses the greatest threat, as feeding birds are attracted to the bait, become hooked\u00a0 \u00a0on the lines, and drown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>New research: How climate change causes \u2018divorce\u2019 among albatrosses<\/strong>\u201d published in the <strong>Indian Express<\/strong> on 27th November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? A new study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B has provided evidence of the effect of environmental conditions on the longevity of relationships among a population of albatrosses. What does the report suggest? It suggests that environmental conditions cause splits between black-browed albatrosses in the South Atlantic, which otherwise&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-research-how-climate-change-causes-divorce-among-albatrosses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New research: How climate change causes \u2018divorce\u2019 among albatrosses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704908246},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}