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This research is funded in part by a Collaborative Programs grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (US). I am grateful to several researchers in the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research program, National Science Foundation (US), for assistance.

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Guerrini, A. (2009). The Trouble with Plovers. In: Drenthen, M., Keulartz, F., Proctor, J. (eds) New Visions of Nature. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2611-8_6

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