Correction: Incorporating Cold-Air Pooling into Downscaled Climate Models Increases Potential Refugia for Snow-Dependent Species within the Sierra Nevada Ecoregion, CA
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There is an error in the last sentence of the third to last paragraph in the Methods. The correct sentence is: A conservative threshold for April 1st snow depth was defined at 1 meter, which equates to an April 1st SWE of 400 mm based on a snow density of 0.4 g/cm3 Copyright: © 2015 Curtis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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