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Nature Geoscience 2, 467 - 468 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo570

Subject Category: Ecology

Climate change: Terrestrial ecosystem inertia

Gian-Kasper Plattner1

  1. Gian-Kasper Plattner is in the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland.
    e-mail: plattner@climate.unibe.ch


Some components of the climate system continue to adjust long after atmospheric greenhouse-gas levels have stopped changing. A coupled climate–vegetation model shows that forests can be committed to die-back or expansion before change is observed.

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