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We thank the Bren School of Environment Science and Management of the University of California Santa Barbara for support leading to the initial publication. This work was also supported by a grant overseen by the French ‘Programme Investissement d’Avenir’ as part of the ‘Make Our Planet Great Again’ programme (reference: 17-MPGA-0004) and by a National Science Foundation grant (LTER-1831944).
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Renard, D., Tilman, D. Reply to: Crop asynchrony stabilizes food production. Nature 588, E13 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2966-5
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