Vegetation displacement issues and transition statistics in climate warming cycle

Community Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-98

  Orloci L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropic carbon; Denial machine; General trends; Late Quaternary vegetation; Transition metrics; Vostok temperature transformations; Warming cooling rates

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DISPLACEMENT; MIGRATION; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 49249086161     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.9.2008.1.10     Document Type: Article

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