Selection counteracts developmental plasticity in body-size responses to climate change

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 29 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01457-8

The authors reveal the complex interplay of factors influencing climate-related body-size changes in tree swallows. Nest warming increased chick size and success yet adult structural size decreased, and mass of males decreased but females did not, the latter linked to reproduction trade-offs.