Climate change: helping nature survive the human response
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1 Science and Knowledge Division, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202, USA 2 Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA 3 WoodrowWilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 4 WoodrowWilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA 5 WoodrowWilson School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
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