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... por:rEN RECORDS OF LATE QUATERNARY VEGETATION CHANGE these climate oscillations indicates that the continuously changing ecological theater on orbital time scales may be a long-term feature in the geological record and hence not restricted to the Quaternary. For example, the long time series of vegetation changes from Sabana de Bogota in Colombia reveals large quasi-periodic changes dating back more than 1.5 m.y.
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... THOMPSON WEBB III FIGURE 13.6 Characteristic temporal and spatial scales for vegetational (ecological) and taxonomic (evolutionary)
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