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Concepts
3 concepts
process
climate-ecosystem feedback
Ecosystem responses to climate change that exert positive or negative feedbacks on climate, mediated by slow-moving factors such as shifts in vegetation community composition
phenomenon
permafrost
measurement
temperature lapse rate
The rate at which temperature decreases with elevation, typically expressed as degrees Celsius per kilometer