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Responses of plants to predicted global climate change are complex, and will depend on the magnitude and interaction of changes among a suite of environmental variables (e.g., atmospheric CO2 concentration, air and soil temperature, amount and seasonal distribution of precipitation, radiation regime, etc).
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Jonasson, S. (1997). Buffering of Arctic Plant Responses in a Changing Climate. In: Oechel, W.C., et al. Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 124. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2240-8_20
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