The race is not to the swift: long-term data reveal pervasive declines in California's low-elevation butterfly fauna.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Ecology

• Publication date

  2011-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1890/11-0382.1PMID 22352162
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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