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Comment Re:Irreversible? (Score 1) 708

No, irreversible in ecological terms means that you move from a stable state with a given biodiversity level to another stable state with a different biodiversity level. Both communities (plant, animals, ecological functions) are stable but in the transition process, you might have lost a lot of species that become locally or globally extinct. Easing on the stressors (climate change) will not bring back your original communities. They are gone. It's like transitioning from rainforests to grasslands both are stable ecosystems with very different biodiversity levels and you might have lost the forests species for good.

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