How climate change affects interactions between owls and their prey

Phys.org Wednesday 08 July 2026, 07:00 UTC 1 min read

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A study published in Ecography has assessed how climate change may be destabilizing interactions between predators and prey in the wild—specifically, how owl–prey interactions have responded to environmental variability and resource availability over 24 years in the semi-arid ecosystem of Bosque Fray Jorge National Park in Chile.

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How climate change affects interactions between owls and their prey

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