Sensitivity and rapidity of vegetational response to abrupt climate change
- 15 February 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 97 (4) , 1359-1361
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.4.1359
Abstract
Rapid climate change characterizes numerous terrestrial sediment records during and since the last glaciation. Vegetational response is best expressed in terrestrial records near ecotones, where sensitivity to climate change is greatest, and response times are as short as decades.Keywords
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