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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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  1. CEFE, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France

    Delphine Renard

  2. Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    David Tilman

  3. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA

    David Tilman

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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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