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Science 22 October 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5440, p. 663
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5440.663
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ECOLOGY:
A Surprising Tale of Life in the City

Keith Kloor

In a landmark shift 2 years ago, the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research program, which funds a network of sites in relatively pristine areas in the United States and Antarctica, added two urban LTER sites: Phoenix, Arizona, and Baltimore, Maryland. And the deeper scientists dig into the ecology of these cities, the more life they are finding, according to a report on the Phoenix project released this month. The findings have a handful of ecologists arguing that maybe--just maybe--cities aren't such a blight after all, although others caution against making too much of the variety of life in the big city.

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