Historical ecology: Using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change
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Historical ecology: using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change.
Predicting the future ecological impact of global change drivers requires understanding how these same drivers have acted in the past to produce the plant populations and communities we see today. Historical ecological data sources have made contributions of central importance to global change biology, but remain outside the toolkit of most ecologists. Here we review the strengths and weaknesse...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Botany
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0002-9122
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200503