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​Topic 22 - Global anthropogenic changes occurring today that impact sustainability
Essential elements from today’s lecture:

In this lecture, we discuss the many global-scale changes that are occurring today that impact the sustainability of today's ecosystems. In this lecture we will discuss key topic areas affecting plant communities:
  1. Changes in human populations, concentrations of greenhouse atmospheric trace gases, and economic globalization as drivers of change.
  2. Increased land-use changes that alter biome structure
  3. Global increase in the abundance of nitrogen within ecosystems
  4. Increases in the abundances and distributions of invasive species
  5. Trends in emissions, temperature change, and how to bend the curve.
  6. Key findings from the latest climate assessment from the US Global Change Research Program