title: Effects of global climate change on the patterns of terrestrial biological communities.
abstract: Recent paleobiological research has shown that late-Quaternary global warming caused individual species distributions to change along environmental gradients in different directions, at different rates, and over different periods. The individualistic responses of the biota created new community patterns. Individualistic changes can be anticipated in the future and if, as predicted, the rate of warming caused by the 'greenhouse effect' is greater than in past events, then the individualistic responses may be even more profound.
authors.affiliation: Russel Graham and Eric Grimm are at the Research and Collections Center, Illinois State Museum, 1920 10 1/2 Street South, Springfield, IL 62703, USA.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Grimm