Ecological responses to recent climate change

@article{Walther2002EcologicalRT,
  title={Ecological responses to recent climate change},
  author={G. R. Walther and Eric Post and Peter Convey and Annette Menzel and Camille Parmesan and Trevor J. C. Beebee and Jean Marc Fromentin and Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg and Franz Bairlein},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2002},
  volume={416},
  pages={389-395}
}
There is now ample evidence of the ecological impacts of recent climate change, from polar terrestrial to tropical marine environments. The responses of both flora and fauna span an array of ecosystems and organizational hierarchies, from the species to the community levels. Despite continued uncertainty as to community and ecosystem trajectories under global change, our review exposes a coherent pattern of ecological change across systems. Although we are only at an early stage in the… 
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