Sentences with phrase «trigger dieback»

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«Nightmarish scenarios follow from these data,» he goes on, «multiyear drought punctuated by intense heat waves leading to rapid ecosystem diebacks that in turn trigger other nonlinear processes of erosion and fire.

abrupt climate change occurring «over periods as short as decades or years,» which could be brought on by positive feedbacks triggered by such events as ice sheet collapse on a large scale, the collapse of part of the Gulf Stream, dieback of the Amazon forest, or coral reef die - off.