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Ecoregion shapes the range response

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Within a single species, different populations can show strikingly varied responses to climate – often attributed to genetic differences of geographically separated populations. Now an elegant analysis, weaving together modelling with large-scale empirical data, demonstrates that ecoregion explains spatial variation in climate responses of the American pika.

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Oldfather, M.F. Ecoregion shapes the range response. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 730–731 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0586-6

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