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Maintaining or restoring connectivity among wildlife populations is a primary strategy to overcome the negative impacts of habitat fragmentation.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are complex existential threats, unpredictable in many ways and unprecedented in modern times.
The ability to maintain a (relatively) stable body temperature in a wide range of thermal environments by use of endogenous heat production is a unique feature of endotherms such as birds.
Climate change is the most critical public health crisis of the 21st century.