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Past environmental changes: Characteristic features of Quaternary climate variations

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Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes

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Climate varies, both temporally and spatially, and the focus of the body of palaeoclimatic research has been to characterize and explain this variation. What has emerged is a view of climate as a multi-component system that varies across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Embedded in these variations are some characteristic features such as trends, abrupt changes, periodicities, and the formation of spatial mosaics of climatic changes; these features occur on many scales and are the subject of this paper.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, OR 97403-1251, USA

    Patrick J. Bartlein

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  1. Environmental Research Centre, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE, Durham, UK

    Brian Huntley  & Judy R. M. Allen  & 

  2. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, P.O. Box 6012 03, D-14412, Potsdam, Germany

    Wolfgang Cramer

  3. Quaternary Sciences Institute, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Alan V. Morgan

  4. Department of Systematic Botany, Lund University, Östra Vallgatan 18-20, S-223 61, Lund, Sweden

    Honor C. Prentice

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Bartlein, P.J. (1997). Past environmental changes: Characteristic features of Quaternary climate variations. In: Huntley, B., Cramer, W., Morgan, A.V., Prentice, H.C., Allen, J.R.M. (eds) Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes. NATO ASI Series, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60599-4_2

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