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Science 6 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5881, pp. 1296 - 1297
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159328
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

Joshua J. Tewksbury1, Raymond B. Huey1, Curtis A. Deutsch2

Tropical animals may be particularly vulnerable to climate warming.

1Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

2Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. E-mail: tewksjj{at}u.washington.edu

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