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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Biological_responses_to_climate_change|273" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="197" ns="0" title="Antarctic climate and environment change over the next 100 years" />
      <page pageid="198" ns="0" title="Antarctic climate and environment history in the pre-instrumental period" />
      <page pageid="199" ns="0" title="Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment" />
      <page pageid="238" ns="0" title="Marine biological responses to climate change" />
      <page pageid="240" ns="0" title="Marine biology over the next 100 years" />
      <page pageid="245" ns="0" title="Models of the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic" />
      <page pageid="275" ns="0" title="Terrestrial biology over the next 100 years" />
      <page pageid="280" ns="0" title="The Antarctic marine ecosystem in the year 2100" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>