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This volume documents that ongoing climate change affects organisms. Climate change emerges as an important biodiversity issue with functional implications on the (i) species, (ii) population and community, and (iii) ecosystem level. The climatic regime of the last three decades induced changes in species ranges and behaviour more than might have been expected from the purely physical magnitude of the change, thus, leaving clear “fingerprints” of change, which might impress those, who find the 0.6 K mean global warming itself negligible.
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Körner, C., walther, Gr. (2001). Fingerprints of climate change — concluding remarks. In: Walther, GR., Burga, C.A., Edwards, P.J. (eds) “Fingerprints” of Climate Change. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8692-4_18
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