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EARLY SPRING DRIVES BUTTERFLY POPULATION DECLINES "AHEAD-OF-TIME" SNOWMELT
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The following information was released by the National Science Foundation: Early snowmelt caused by climate change in the Colorado Rocky Mountains snowballs into two chains of events: a decrease in the number of flowers, which, in turn, decreases available nectar. The result is decline in a populati
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