Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

Steven I. Higgins () and Simon Scheiter
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Steven I. Higgins: Institut für Physische Geographie, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Altenhöferallee 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Simon Scheiter: Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7410, 209-212

Abstract: A model of the effects of climate change on African vegetation from 1850 to 2100 predicts increases in woody plant cover, but considerable heterogeneity in the timing of these shifts dampens the shock that these changes in land-surface properties may represent to the Earth system.

Date: 2012
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