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Xie Y, Shen Z, Wang T, Malanson GP, Peñuelas J, Wang X, Chen X, Liang E, Liu H, Yang M, Ying L, Zhao F, Piao S. Uppermost global tree elevations are primarily limited by low temperature or insufficient moisture. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17260. [PMID: 38563236 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2024] [Revised: 03/11/2024] [Accepted: 03/12/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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The impact of anthropogenic global warming has induced significant upward dispersal of trees to higher elevations at alpine treelines. Assessing vertical deviation from current uppermost tree distributions to potential treeline positions is crucial for understanding ecosystem responses to evolving global climate. However, due to data resolution constraints and research scale limitation, comprehending the global pattern of alpine treeline elevations and driving factors remains challenging. This study constructed a comprehensive quasi-observational dataset of uppermost tree distribution across global mountains using Google Earth imagery. Validating the isotherm of mean growing-season air temperature at 6.6 ± 0.3°C as the global indicator of thermal treeline, we found that around two-thirds of uppermost tree distribution records significantly deviated from it. Drought conditions constitute the primary driver in 51% of cases, followed by mountain elevation effect which indicates surface heat (27%). Our analyses underscore the multifaceted determinants of global patterns of alpine treeline, explaining divergent treeline responses to climate warming. Moisture, along with temperature and disturbance, plays the most fundamental roles in understanding global variation of alpine treeline elevation and forecasting alpine treeline response to ongoing global warming.
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- Yuyang Xie
- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Godwyn-Paulson P, Jonathan MP, Pineda AL, Rojas OV, Muthusankar G, Gutiérrez-Mosquera H, Lakshumanan C. Four-decade (1977-2017) landscape tale of tourist reservoir hotspot El Piñol-Guatapé, Colombia. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2023; 195:796. [PMID: 37264253 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-023-11369-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Efficient management of land use/land cover (LULC) features is vital for a balanced sustainable ecosystem. Thus, this work aimed to document the LULC changes in the less studied El Peñol-Guatapé reservoir, Antioquia, Colombia, especially in the reservoir area due to the construction of a hydro-electric power plant. For this study, Landsat images of 1977, 1986, 1997, and 2017 were used and the results indicated an increase in the settlement area and road networks by 0.10 and 0.60%, respectively, while during 1986 to 2017, cropland, plantation, dense forest, and open forest areas presented an increase of 0.52, 1.06, 2.87 and 2.61%, respectively. However, the marshy vegetation, scrub forest and fallow land decreased to - 0.51, - 3.79 and - 4.29%, respectively, in the same period. The water body before and after the completion of reservoir project denoted an increase from 13.1 km2 in 1977 to 45.7 km2 in 1986. This study provides a first-hand report on LULC dynamics in this tourism dominated municipalities that will serve as a reference for ecosystem management to reconcile the conflicts between different LULC classes in ecologically enriched regions.
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- P Godwyn-Paulson
- Escuela Superior de Ingeniería y Arquitectura (ESIA), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Unidad Ticomán, Calz. Ticomán 600, Delg. Gustavo A. Madero, C.P. 07340, Ciudad de Mexico (CDMX), Mexico
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones y Estudios Sobre Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo (CIIEMAD), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Calle 30 de Junio de 1520, Barrio La Laguna Ticomán, Del. Gustavo A. Madero, C.P.07340, Ciudad de Mexico, México.
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- Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Medellin, Carrera 87 No.30-65, 050026, Medellin, Colombia
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- Universidad de Manizales, Programa Doctorado Desarrollo Sostenible, Cra 9 a # 19-03 Campo Hermoso, Caldas, Manizales, 170003, Colombia
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- French Institute of Pondicherry, 11 St Louis Street, P.B. 33, Puducherry, 605001, India
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- Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó, Carrera 22 No.18B-10, Quibdó, Colombia
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- Department of Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University, Khajamalai Campus, Tiruchirappalli, 620023, India
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Espinoza IG, Franco-Gaviria F, Castañeda I, Robinson C, Room A, Berrío JC, Armenteras D, Urrego DH. Holocene Fires and Ecological Novelty in the High Colombian Cordillera Oriental. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.895152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Rapid climate changes and the increasing presence of humans define the Holocene Epoch (11.6 calibrated kiloyears before present – hereafter kyr BP), when biological systems have faced the most recent and abrupt environmental changes. Understanding how biodiversity responds to extrinsic factors requires determining the effects of varying climatic conditions, changes in disturbance regimes, and increasing anthropogenic impacts. Despite being one center for biodiversity, the potential synergies of long-term anthropogenic and climate changes in shaping areas of high Andean biodiversity have yet to be explored fully. Here we present new pollen and charcoal records from the Pantano de Monquentiva (hereafter Monquentiva) on the highlands of the eastern flank of the Colombian Cordillera Oriental (CCO) to document relationships between climate, vegetation, and fire through the Holocene. We found compositional transitions at 8.7, 6.1, and 4.1 kyr BP at Monquentiva resulting from the interaction of climate, fire, and human occupation. Reduced moisture and temperature caused a compositional shift in Páramo vegetation from ca. 8.7 kyr BP. Fire activity was recorded throughout the Holocene and increased slightly during the Mid-Holocene when regional and local fire decoupling suggested human activities as the source of ignition. Mid-Holocene fires had a large effect on the vegetation composition at Monquentiva which recorded a rapid shift at ca. 6.8 kyr BP. Fire activity increased sharply from 4.1 kyr BP, promoting the reorganization of plant communities at 3.8 kyr BP. This shift in fire activity was likely related to more severe ENSO events and subsequently intensified by human activities after 3.8 kyr BP. Although high climatic sensitivity explains most Holocene vegetation changes in the eastern flank of the CCO, our study highlights the relevance of fire activity, uneven distribution of climatic variables, and human intervention to the composition of the vegetation we see today.
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Salinas N, Cosio EG, Silman M, Meir P, Nottingham AT, Roman-Cuesta RM, Malhi Y. Editorial: Tropical Montane Forests in a Changing Environment. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:712748. [PMID: 34456951 PMCID: PMC8385751 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.712748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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- Norma Salinas
- Institute for Nature, Earth and Energy, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
- Chemistry Section, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
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- Institute for Nature, Earth and Energy, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
- Chemistry Section, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
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- Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
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- Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Laboratory of GeoInformation Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
- Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Aragón S, Salinas N, Nina-Quispe A, Qquellon VH, Paucar GR, Huaman W, Porroa PC, Olarte JC, Cruz R, Muñiz JG, Yupayccana CS, Espinoza TEB, Tito R, Cosio EG, Roman-Cuesta RM. Aboveground biomass in secondary montane forests in Peru: Slow carbon recovery in agroforestry legacies. Glob Ecol Conserv 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01696] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Norambuena HV, Els P, Victoriano PF, Knowles L. Genome‐wide DNA and phenotypic information supports recent colonization of South American grasslands by Correndera Pipit (Aves, Motacillidae). ZOOL SCR 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Museum of Natural Science Louisiana State University Baton Rouge LA USA
- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Zoología Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Museum of Zoology University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI USA
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Intersection of Physical and Anthropogenic Effects on Land-Use/Land-Cover Changes in Coastal China of Jiangsu Province. SUSTAINABILITY 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/su11082370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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China is experiencing substantial land-use and land-cover change (LUCC), especially in coastal regions, and these changes have caused many ecological problems. This study selected a typical region of Jiangsu Province and completed a comprehensive and detailed spatial-temporal analysis regarding LUCC and the driving forces. The results show that the rate of land-use change has been accelerating, with land-use experiencing the most substantial changes from 2005 to 2010 for most land-use types and the period from 2010 to 2015 showing a reversed changing trend. Built-up land that occupies cropland was the main characteristic of land-use type change. Southern Jiangsu and the coastline region presented more obvious land-use changes. Social-economic development was the main factor driving increased built-up land expansion and cropland reduction. In addition, land-use policy can significantly affect land-use type changes. For land-cover changes, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for the land area without land-use type changes increased by 0.005 per year overall. Areas with increasing trends accounted for 82.43% of the total area. Both precipitation and temperature displayed more areas that were positively correlated with NDVI, especially for temperature. Temperature correlated more strongly with NDVI change than precipitation for most vegetation types. Our study can be used as a reference for land-use managers to ensure sustainable and ecological land-use and coastal management.
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Els P, Norambuena HV, Etienne RS. From pampa to puna: Biogeography and diversification of a group of Neotropical obligate grassland birds ( Anthus:Motacillidae). J ZOOL SYST EVOL RES 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Paul Els
- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life SciencesUniversity of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
- Department of Biological SciencesMuseum of Natural ScienceLouisiana State University Baton Rouge LA
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- Departamento de ZoologíaFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y OceanográficasUniversidad de Concepción Concepción Chile
- Centro de Estudios Agrarios y Ambientales Valdivia Chile
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- Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life SciencesUniversity of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
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Oliveras I, Román-Cuesta RM, Urquiaga-Flores E, Quintano Loayza JA, Kala J, Huamán V, Lizárraga N, Sans G, Quispe K, Lopez E, Lopez D, Cuba Torres I, Enquist BJ, Malhi Y. Fire effects and ecological recovery pathways of tropical montane cloud forests along a time chronosequence. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2018; 24:758-772. [PMID: 29080261 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) harbour high levels of biodiversity and large carbon stocks. Their location at high elevations make them especially sensitive to climate change, because a warming climate is enhancing upslope species migration, but human disturbance (especially fire) may in many cases be pushing the treeline downslope. TMCFs are increasingly being affected by fire, and the long-term effects of fire are still unknown. Here, we present a 28-year chronosequence to assess the effects of fire and recovery pathways of burned TMCFs, with a detailed analysis of carbon stocks, forest structure and diversity. We assessed rates of change of carbon (C) stock pools, forest structure and tree-size distribution pathways and tested several hypotheses regarding metabolic scaling theory (MST), C recovery and biodiversity. We found four different C stock recovery pathways depending on the selected C pool and time since last fire, with a recovery of total C stocks but not of aboveground C stocks. In terms of forest structure, there was an increase in the number of small stems in the burned forests up to 5-9 years after fire because of regeneration patterns, but no differences on larger trees between burned and unburned plots in the long term. In support of MST, after fire, forest structure appears to approximate steady-state size distribution in less than 30 years. However, our results also provide new evidence that the species recovery of TMCF after fire is idiosyncratic and follows multiple pathways. While fire increased species richness, it also enhanced species dissimilarity with geographical distance. This is the first study to report a long-term chronosequence of recovery pathways to fire suggesting faster recovery rates than previously reported, but at the expense of biodiversity and aboveground C stocks.
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- Imma Oliveras
- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Laboratory of Geo-Information and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Universidad de Santo Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- Universidad de Santo Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- Universidad de Santo Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- Universidad de Santo Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- Universidad de Santo Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Perú
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Kindu M, Schneider T, Teketay D, Knoke T. Drivers of land use/land cover changes in Munessa-Shashemene landscape of the south-central highlands of Ethiopia. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2015; 187:452. [PMID: 26092242 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4671-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2014] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Understanding drivers of changes in land use/land cover (LULC) is essential for modeling future dynamics or development of management strategies to ameliorate or prevent further decline of natural resources. In this study, an attempt has been made to identify the main drivers behind the LULC changes that had occurred in the past four decades in Munessa-Shashemene landscape of the south-central highlands of Ethiopia. The datasets required for the study were generated through both primary and secondary sources. Combination of techniques, including descriptive statistics, GIS-based processing, and regression analyses were employed for data analyses. Changes triggered by the interplay of more than 12 drivers were identified related to social, economic, environmental, policy/institutional, and technological factors. Specifically, population growth, expansion of cultivated lands and settlements, livestock ranching, cutting of woody species for fuelwood, and charcoal making were the top six important drivers of LULC change as viewed by the local people and confirmed by quantitative analyses. Differences in respondents' perceptions related to environmental (i.e., location specific) and socioeconomic determinants (e.g., age and literacy) about drivers were statically significant (P = 0.001). LULC changes were also determined by distances to major drivers (e.g., the further a pixel is from the road, the less likelihood of changes) as shown by the landscape level analyses. Further studies are suggested targeting these drivers to explore the consequences and future options and formulate intervention strategies for sustainable development in the studied landscape and elsewhere with similar geographic settings.
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- Mengistie Kindu
- Institute of Forest Management, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany,
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