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Biodiversity-dominated feedback

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About 5,500 years ago, there was a shift from savannah to desert vegetation in the Sahara. Conceptual modelling suggests that the transition was controlled by a climate–vegetation feedback that was also influenced by plant diversity.

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Figure 1: Vegetation changes.

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  1. Department of Environmental Sciences, Stefan C. Dekker is at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands,

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Dekker, S. Biodiversity-dominated feedback. Nature Geosci 6, 903–904 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1989

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