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O'Reilly et al. reply - Eschenbach1 questions the validity of our climate record and our proposed link between climate and lake ecosystem change. Here we address the three main issues: our meteorological data, the timing of limnological changes, and the warming of Lake Tanganyika.
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O'Reilly, C., Plisnier, PD., Cohen, A. et al. Climate-change effect on Lake Tanganyika? (reply). Nature 430, 1–2 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02737
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