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Science 1 August 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5889, pp. 652 - 653
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159607
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Ecosystem Disturbance, Carbon, and Climate

Steven W. Running

Models of climate change effects should incorporate land-use changes and episodic disturbances such as fires and insect epidemics.

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, College of Forestry, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. E-mail: swr{at}ntsg.umt.edu

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