Sentences with phrase «understood changes in vegetation»

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«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.&Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.&change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

The study shows that below ground conditions need to be considered to understand the distribution of terrestrial vegetation both historically and in the face of future climate change.

Ecological restoration is rooted in the understanding of past ecosystem dynamics, and paleoecological reconstructions provide a long - term perspective on landscape change, vegetation dynamics, and fire history.