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Nature 410, 616 (5 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35070741
Climate change transforms island ecosystem
Peter Pockley
The first survey for a decade of animals and plants on Australia's Heard Island, 4,000 kilometres southwest of Perth, has unearthed dramatic evidence of global warming's ecological impact.The survey found that glaciers on the sub-Antarctic island have retreated by 12% since the first measurements were taken in 1947.
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