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Climate change must not blow conservation off course

Reconfiguring protection priorities around global warming could be of limited use or even harmful, say Morgan W. Tingley, Lyndon D. Estes and David S. Wilcove.

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Tingley, M., Estes, L. & Wilcove, D. Climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature 500, 271–272 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/500271a

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