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Terrestrial ecosystem inertia

Nature Geoscience volume 2, pages 467–468 (2009)Cite this article

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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