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- not comparablebiologyThriving at a low temperature.
This warming is also implied by the decreasing percentage of cryophilous pollen taxa like Ericaceae and climbing trend of the δ 18 O curve in other paleoclimate records of the East Asia ^([sic]) (Fig 6), when the summer insolation is increasing.
2016 January 6, “Vegetation and Climate Change during the Last Deglaciation in the Great Khingan Mountain, Northeastern China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOISynonyms: cryophilic, psychrophilic · Antonyms: cryophobic
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