Vast avian database links form to function

Vast avian database links form to function

Credit: De Visu, Adobe Photo Stock

A decade-long effort building on bird specimens collected over the past two centuries has culminated in a database of 57,000 birds representing the world’s 10,000 or so species.

Drawing from beak, wing, tail, leg and other body part measurements, Alex Pigot from University College London, UK, and colleagues have confirmed these features are intimately connected to, and can predict, birds’ functional roles in ecosystems.

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Published by Cosmos.

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