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Stormy outlook for long-term ecology studies

The closure of a 40-year project to understand and protect seabirds shows the false priorities of funders, warns Tim Birkhead.

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Birkhead, T. Stormy outlook for long-term ecology studies. Nature 514, 405 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/514405a

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