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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apcontinue="Conclusions_on_the_ice_sheet_in_the_instrumental_period" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="208" ns="0" title="Biological modelling and bioregionalization" />
      <p pageid="209" ns="0" title="Biological response of birds and mammals" />
      <p pageid="210" ns="0" title="Biological responses to 21st climate climate change" />
      <p pageid="211" ns="0" title="Biological responses to climate change" />
      <p pageid="212" ns="0" title="Biota of the Antarctic" />
      <p pageid="213" ns="0" title="Changes in Antarctic permafrost over the past 50 years" />
      <p pageid="214" ns="0" title="Changes in Antarctic snowfall over the past 50 years" />
      <p pageid="215" ns="0" title="Changes in sea ice extent through the Holocene" />
      <p pageid="216" ns="0" title="Changes to the Terrestrial cryosphere over the next 100 years" />
      <p pageid="217" ns="0" title="Concluding remarks on the pre-instrumental period" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
</api>