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and land, and also between those making measurements and those developing
models. But above all, the community must deliver more by way of systematic
deposition of its data.
In making the most of data, funding agencies, journals and researchers themselves
all have a role to play. There seems to be too little awareness by researchers of what
is admittedly something of a maze of publicly supported databases. And too often,
as researchers will readily complain, trying to extract numbers in a large data set
from the originators of published work is like pulling teeth.
This is not to decry much of the very good work that has been, and is being, carried
out. The purpose of this topic is simply to provide bioscience and other students
(not to mention interested members of the public) with a basic, broad-brush picture
as to how climate affects biology (and vice versa). For others this topic will serve
as a background against which they can set their own more specialist work, with
reference to human ecology and likely future climate change. However, before this
can be done, it will be useful to review some of the key biological indicators of past
climate change. This forms the subject of the next chapter.
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