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Tolerance mechanisms in North American deserts: Biological and societal approaches to climate change

2011-08-01

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The deserts of North America and elsewhere may serve as ‘ecological petri dishes’ that can be used to study the general effects of global climate change (GCC) as these regions are expected to become warmer and drier at faster rates than other terrestrial regions. We highlight the biological and societal responses to such shifts in environmental parameters predicted to vary with GCC, and we introduce the term toler...

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Literature Corpus work: e7f20dc7-1326-545e-a47d-b78de9d6d19e
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.03.006

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