{"id":200709,"date":"2024-12-03T13:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/bird-dispersal-ability-shapes-biodiversity-patterns-on-islands-worldwide-new-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:30:37","slug":"bird-dispersal-ability-shapes-biodiversity-patterns-on-islands-worldwide-new-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/bird-dispersal-ability-shapes-biodiversity-patterns-on-islands-worldwide-new-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Bird dispersal ability shapes biodiversity patterns on islands worldwide, new study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bird-dispersal-ability-shapes-biodiversity-patterns-on-islands-worldwide-new-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta with its long legs and short, stubby wings that it uses in rare, short bursts of flight.<\/p>\n<p>But can bird wing shape tell scientists something useful about how nature is organized?<\/p>\n<p>Research from Washington University in St. Louis says that bird wing shape\u2014a proxy for long-distance flying ability\u2014is a trait that influences biodiversity patterns on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/islands\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">islands<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can know a lot of things about birds just by the shape of their wings. A seafaring albatross, stretching out its sail-like airfoils, lives a very different life from a ground-dwelling antpitta with its long legs and short, stubby wings that it uses in rare, short bursts of flight. But can bird wing shape [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}