Sensitivity and rapidity of vegetational response to abrupt climate change

  1. Dorothy Peteet*
  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025; and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New Core Lab, Palisades, NY 10964

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.

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  • ↵ * To whom reprint requests should be addressed. E-mail: dpeteet{at}giss.nasa.gov.

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  1. PNAS February 15, 2000 vol. 97 no. 4 1359-1361
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