If the 2-degree warming threshold of the Paris agreement is exceeded, Mediterranean ecosystems will change beyond anything seen over the past 10,000 years.
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Skibba, R. Climate-change study raises spectre of advancing Mediterranean desert. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20894
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