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International Journal of Zoology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 710710, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/710710
Reviving a Legacy Citizen Science Project to Illuminate Shifts in Bird Phenology
1USGS, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, BARC-East, Building 308, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
2College of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Lehotsky Hall Clemson, SC 29634, USA
3Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgetown University, St. Mary's Hall, 37th and O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057, USA
Received 2 March 2012; Accepted 26 April 2012
Academic Editor: Richard Stafford
Copyright © 2012 Jessica Zelt et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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