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This presents a global overview of vegetational changes in response to large-scale environmental changes, particularly climate, in the last 65 million years, and draws on new research in palynology, climatology, geophysics and oceanography.
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The reality of long-term change; diversity - the global plant cover; diversity - global climate; environmental change - the tertiary period; environmental change - the Pleistocene ice age; environmental change - the Holocene; the development of diversity; plant migration; the forested world of the tertiary; forests in decline; the resurgence of forest; forests under threat; dryland communities; coldland communities; past, present and future.
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