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