A venerable conservation organization predicts how climate change will affect individual species. Will conservationists take pre-emptive action? Emma Marris reports.
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Marris, E. Pre-emptive strike: outwitting extinction. Nature Clim Change 1, 140–141 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/climate.2008.114
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