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June 10, 2020

Townsend’s chipmunk

A Townsend’s chipmunk, one of a number of species of animals and plants that will likely need to migrate as the climate changes, according to a recent National Science Foundation-supported study.

[Research supported by NSF grant BCS 0814366.]

Learn more in the University of Washington news story Rethinking land conservation to protect species that will need to move with climate change. (Date image taken: unknown; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: June 10, 2020)

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