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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#1A1A1A"><b>Excerpts from
plain-language release:</b> "In a study published today in<i>
Nature Climate Change</i>, scientists use fossilized pollen to examine
the future of biodiversity on Earth under climate change. The
scientists predict profound changes in the distribution of plants
globally.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#1A1A1A">"It means
... new species in forests, on prairies and scrublands,
while other species, that are common in those areas today, will be
gone."</font></div>
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Full plain-language release here:</b></font><font face="Arial"
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>https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/fos--fra103116.php</u
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#1A1A1A"><i>Nature Climate
Change</i> (2016) doi:10.1038/nclimate3146</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#1A1A1A">Published online 31
October 2016</font></div>
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<b>Amplified plant turnover in response to climate change forecast by
Late Quaternary records</b></font><font face="Arial"
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</font><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#1A1A1A">D. Nogués-Bravo,
S. Veloz, B. G. Holt, J. Singarayer, P. Valdes, B. Davis, S. C.
Brewer, J. W. Williams & C. Rahbek</font><br>
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>http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate31</u
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" color="#1A1A1A">Conservation decisions
are informed by twenty-first-century climate impact projections that
typically predict high extinction risk (1, 2). Conversely, the
palaeorecord shows strong sensitivity of species abundances and
distributions to past climate changes (3), but few clear instances of
extinctions attributable to rising temperatures. However, few studies
have incorporated palaeoecological data into projections of future
distributions. Here we project changes in abundance and conservation
status under a climate warming scenario for 187 European and North
American plant taxa using niche-based models calibrated against
taxa-climate relationships for the past 21,000 years. We find that
incorporating long-term data into niche-based models increases the
magnitude of projected future changes for plant abundances and
community turnover. The larger projected changes in abundances and
community turnover translate into different, and often more
threatened, projected IUCN conservation status for declining tree
taxa, compared with traditional approaches. An average of 18.4% (North
America) and 15.5% (Europe) of taxa switch IUCN categories when
compared with single-time model results. When taxa categorized as
'Least Concern' are excluded, the palaeo-ca</font></div>
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Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain
percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more,
spend more -- ever more."<br>
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Donella Meadows. Just So Much And No More.<i> Yes</i> magazine June
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</b>"If enterprises are to grow, they must increase the scale of
their production. Since production is useless without a market,
the market must grow if production expands. There are many ways one
can expand markets: the most efficient is to increase the buying power
of the mass of the population."<br>
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Mead, Walter Russell. <i> Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in
Transition.</i> 381 pages. Houghton Mifflin. 1987.<br>
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