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Abstract
Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations are expected to have significant impacts
on the world's climate on a timescale of decades to centuries. Evidence from long-term
monitoring studies is now accumulating and suggests that the climate of the past few
decades is anomalous compared with past climate variation, and that recent climatic
and atmospheric trends are already affecting species physiology, distribution and
phenology.