Simulations of the ecological effects on grassland ecosystems projected from the proposed climatic changes that would follow a nuclear war indicate that temperature and light reductions below ambient mean levels exceeding 10°C and 28%, respectively, are required for severe ecosystem deterioration to occur and that thresholds between promotion and decline are very abrupt.
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McNaughton, S., Ruess, R. & Coughenour, M. Ecological consequences of nuclear war. Nature 321, 483–487 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/321483a0
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