Birds are tracking climate warming, but not fast enough

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2008-12-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2008.0878PMID 18713715PMCID PMC2605823
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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