A European-wide analysis of changing species distributions shows that butterflies outrun birds in the race to move northwards in response to climate change, but that neither group keeps up with increasing temperatures.
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Visser, M. Birds and butterflies in climatic debt. Nature Clim Change 2, 77–78 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1387
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