Changes in cropping methods, climate decoy pintail ducks into an ecological trap
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 12:00
in Earth & Climate
After a severe drought gripped the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada in the 1980s, populations of almost all dabbling duck species that breed there have recovered. But not northern pintails. Now, a new study by a team of researchers suggests why—they have been caught in an ecological trap.