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Science 22 August 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5892, pp. 1051 - 1052
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159822
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
A Matter of Timing

Bruce E. Lyon Alexis,1 S. Chaine,2 David W. Winkler3

The cues used by birds and other species to trigger reproduction determine how successfully they can respond to climate change.

1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. E-mail: lyon{at}biology.ucsc.edu

2Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS à Moulis USR 2936, 09200 Moulis, France.

3Museum of Vertebrates and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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