Role of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Global Change A Plan for Action (1994) / Chapter Skim
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The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
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ensure involvement of the ecological community in defining the scientific priorities for global change research related to terrestrial ecosystems. In view of this charge, this report identifies major research initiatives for the USGCRP where substantial progress could be made within the next decade in reducing uncertainty about the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to global changes in climate, land use, and the feedbacks of ecosystem charges to climate.
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. The present report builds on this research planning and sets priorities among this large range of important topics by focusing on those research efforts that will contribute most within the next decade to improved understanding of the role of terrestrial ecosystems in global changes of the earth system.
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