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gcb-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Global Change Biology (GCB) manuscript in the literature so it reads as a global-change advance, not a local report. GCB readers span ecology, biogeochemistry, and Earth-system science, so the paper must engage the cross-system literatures it speaks to. Structures positioning; it does not fabricate citations.
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# Literature Positioning (gcb-literature-positioning)
GCB is read across **ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem science, and Earth-system / climate-impacts**
communities. A submission must show it knows the **global-change** literature on its driver and
response — not just the narrow subfield where the data were collected. This skill positions the
contribution so reviewers see the gap and the advance.
## When to trigger
- Writing the introduction's "what is known / what is missing" framing
- Reconciling a finding with prior global-change studies (and apparent contradictions)
- Building a Research Review's coverage and argument
- A reviewer said the framing is "too local" or "misses key literature"
