climatic

• “Its ability, though, to repopulate a small area all on its own is giving researchers in Australia great hope that plants will be far more durable in the face of long-term climatic change than they've thought in the past.”

  Voice of America: Self-Cloning Botanic Wonder Amazes Australian Scientists

• “This may stem from the variability in climatic conditions and the practice of naming a particular disease as it manifested.”

  Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE

• “Other than releasing small amounts of oil from the Reserve for very limited short term climatic or pipeline disruptions, extortionist high oil prices that were risking a national economic calamity were never adequate cause to tap the SPR in this administration's reckoning.”

  Raymond J. Learsy: Stop The Energy Department From Hiking Oil Prices By Reinstituting Purchases For The Strategic Petroleum Reserve

• “Although the displacement rate of the upper treeline is a good reflection of long-term climatic fluctuations (Table 14.8), reconstruction of actual temperature changes is complicated because of the response lag caused by the slow growth of seedlings and the lack of seeds on remote sites.”

  Climate change and forest distribution in the Arctic

• “Long-term climatic changes in the arctic region of the Northern Hemisphere.”

  Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP

• “Some seabird populations have been found to respond to long-term climatic changes in the North Atlantic Ocean [31], the North Pacific Ocean [32], and Antarctica.”

  Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic

• “The region is an important area for understanding recent ecological successions, as well as longer term climatic changes.”

  Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)

• “A multi-year project, centered around small sensitive lake ecosystems in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Cornwallis Island, Somerset Island, and Devon Island), was designed to explain the interactions between short - or longer - term climatic variation, the bioaccumulation of metals, and various biochemical stress indicators in land-locked populations of Arctic char.”

  Global change and contaminants in the Arctic

• “The original Acacia bushland of this ecoregion has been greatly altered over thousands of years, through long-term climatic changes and also through anthropogenic effects.”

  Sahelian Acacia savanna

• “Large inter-annual and longer-term climatic variations cause fluc­tuations in crop, forage, and water yields.”

  Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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