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Tag Archives: savanna

NASA: climate change leads to enormous ecosystem shifts – 40% of biomes flip this century

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm
Posted in Bits of Biodiversity, Bits of Climate, Bits of Ecology | Tagged biodiversity, biomes, climate change, climate model, Climatic Change, ecosystems, Holocene Extinction, NASA, rainforest, savanna, species migration, taiga, tundra

Study shows binary switches between forest, savanna, desert: macro-scale climate-biodiversity tipping points

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Researchers of Wageningen University find in South America, Africa and Australia under climatic change forest, savanna and treeless systems don’t gradually phase across, but rather tip over.

Posted in Bits of Biodiversity, Bits of Climate, Bits of Ecology | Tagged Amazon, biodiversity, climate change, climate feedbacks, deforestation, desert, desertification, ecosystems, forests, Holocene Extinction, savanna, Science, tipping points
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