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Edited by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 15, 2014 (received for review June 5, 2014)
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- Published in issue November 18, 2014.
- Published first October 27, 2014.
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- Corey J. A. Bradshaw1 and
- Barry W. Brook
- The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Edited by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and approved September 15, 2014 (received for review June 5, 2014)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: corey.bradshaw{at}adelaide.edu.au.
Author contributions: C.J.A.B. and B.W.B. designed research; C.J.A.B. and B.W.B. performed research; B.W.B. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; C.J.A.B. analyzed data; and C.J.A.B. and B.W.B. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: Data available from the Aekos Data Portal, www.aekos.org.au (dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/53869A9434A46).
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1410465111/-/DCSupplemental.
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