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Defining Flagship Uses is Critical for Flagship Selection: A Critique of the IUCN Climate Change Flagship Fleet

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to the members of the IUCN climate change flagship fleet group for their cooperation. M.B.’s work was enabled by the University of Oxford Clarendon Fund, Felix and Wingate Scholarships. M.R.-B. was supported by a graduate fellowship from CONICYT (No. 63105446).

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  1. School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Maan Barua, Richard J. Ladle & Paul Jepson

  2. Department of Ecology, CASEB, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Meredith Root-Bernstein

  3. Faculty of Science and Health, Federal University of Alagoas, Alagoas, Brazil

    Richard J. Ladle

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Barua, M., Root-Bernstein, M., Ladle, R.J. et al. Defining Flagship Uses is Critical for Flagship Selection: A Critique of the IUCN Climate Change Flagship Fleet. AMBIO 40, 431–435 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-010-0116-2

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