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Pleistocene
10,000 to 20,000 years before present, end of last ice age.
Holocene
the last 10,000 years
Daily/seasonally/yearly scale
wilting, annual plants, leaf fall, population differences
Decades to centuries scale
Commonly called succession, biomass, community structure, stratum development, diversity etc. studied by plots, tree rings, soil cores, etc
Thousands to millions of years scale
Plant migration, speciation, evolution, vegetation distribution. studied by fossil records, ice cores, isotopes, etc.
Relicts or refugia
plants found were they "dont belong" as a result of a previous climate.
spatial scales
Continental, regional, local
Precambrian era
over 600mya
Paleozoic era
to 225mya
Mesozoic era
to 65mya
Cenozoic era
65mya to present