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Chapter 20

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    Figure Number: 20.2
    Legend: The greenhouse effect: heat trapping by Earth's atmosphere.

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    Figure Number: 20.3
    Legend: Some causes and potential consequences of global environmental change.

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    Figure Number: 20.4
    Legend: The Southern Oscillation Index shows the difference in barometric pressures between Tahiti and Darwin, Australia.

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    Figure Number: 20.5
    Legend: Walker circulation, El Nino, and La Nina.

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    Figure Number: 20.6
    Legend: Effects of the exceptionally strong El Nino of 1982 to 1983 on patterns of global precipitation.

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    Figure Number: 20.7
    Legend: Sea surface temperature during (b) non-El Nino and (a) El Nino conditions.

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    Figure Number: 20.10
    Legend: The El Nino of 1982 to 1983 created conditions for a trophic cascade.

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    Figure Number: 20.12
    Legend: El Nino, La Nina, and population dynamics of the red kangaroo.

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    Figure Number: 20.13
    Legend: Human and nonhuman sources of fixed nitrogen.

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    Figure Number: 20.14
    Legend: Increase in nitrogen fixation by human processes during the twentieth century.

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    Figure Number: 20.15
    Legend: Distribution of rain forest area by country.

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    Figure Number: 20.21
    Legend: A 160,000-year record of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and temperature change.

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    Figure Number: 20.22
    Legend: The Siple ice core provides a 1,000-year atmospheric CO2 record.

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    Figure Number: 20.23
    Legend: Deviations from recent exponential increases in fossil fuel burning.

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    Figure Number: 20.24
    Legend: The Suess effect.

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    Figure Number: 20.25
    Legend: The U.S. Long-Term ecological Research (LTER).

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