The region contains many smaller-scale ecosystems, and both they and the larger landscape undergo constant change at the hands of naturally recurring forces like insect infestations, lightning-set fires and climatic fluctuations.
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Other recently reported pollen studies in the Massif Central of France, combined with an analysis of the mineral content of lake deposits there, have likewise suggested rapid climatic fluctuations in the Eemian.
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The location of the New Caledonian Islands in the Pacific Ocean moderated these climatic fluctuations, and maintained the relatively humid and mild climate which has allowed these communities to persist to the present day.
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However, the causes of the decline of the Indus Valley civilization might have many possible reasons sometimes, stated as progressive desiccation of the lower Indus valley, climatic fluctuation, foreign invasions, and earthquake might bury the cities.
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The moderating influence of the Atlantic has allowed many relict species in the Baetic and Rif mountains to survive the climatic fluctuations of the last few million years that have caused them to become extinct elsewhere around the Mediterranean basin.
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Studies suggest that repeated fragmentation and reconnection of p�ramo vegetation, caused by the Pleistocene climatic fluctuations, had a strong influence on the evolution and speed of speciation in the genus " Polylepis " as well as the p�ramo biota as a whole.
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Historian Linda Cordell notes that " . . . the late pithouses are often clues to relatively short-term changes in settlement location and adjustment to climatic fluctuations . " ( Cordell, p . 164 ) This appears to be true among the modern Pueblo peoples as well.
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The " historical outline " covers a number of topics; from the origin of man before Ice Age and a global caste-system, to the breakup of this global population due to the appearance of the Ice Age, climatic fluctuations and continental drift . The saga explains how this first, tropical culture was divided into ten different kingdoms as life on each continents developed into parallel but different biotops.
