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deprecated concept > global environmental change

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global environmental change  

Definition

  • [Peter J. Gregory] Global environmental change (GEC) is a consequence of a range of human activities and includeselements such as increasing concentrations of gases in the atmosphere, climate variation and change,rising sea level, loss of biodiversity, and changes in water and nitrogen cycling... , "[Steven L. ChownKevin] Global environmental change (GEC) is a significant concern. However, forecasting the outcomes of this change for species and ecosystems remains a major challenge. In particular, predicting specific changes in systems where initial conditions, instabilities, and model errors have large impacts on the outcome is problematic. Indeed, predictive community ecology has been deemed unworthy of pursuit or an unreachable goal. However, new developments in large-scale biology provide ways of thinking that might substantially improve forecasts of local and regional impacts of climate change...

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Entry terms

  • GEC
  • global environmental changes
  • globally environmental change

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  • MS Academic Keywords

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0511

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