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Global Change

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Both scientists and nonscientists are aware that the earth and its ecological systems are dynamic when one considers relatively long time-scales. That there was a major continental ice cap a few tens of thousands of years ago is sufficiently part of the common wisdom that children’s cartoons can use a “caveman” motif in the context of an “ice age” without any need for explanation. The occurrence of major extinctions of biotic groups (such as the “dinosaurs”) in the past is not difficult for most people to imagine. In general, we are quite willing to believe that, viewed over the eons, the earth has been an extremely dynamic planet.

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Shugart, H.H. (1993). Global Change. In: Solomon, A.M., Shugart, H.H. (eds) Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2816-6_1

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