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The environmental history of the Kootenay Valley in the southern Canadian Rockies was reconstructed using lake sediment from
Dog Lake, British Columbia, and compared to other paleoenvironmental studies in the region to understand how vegetation dynamics
and fire regimes responded to climate change during the Holocene. A pollen-based vegetation reconstruction indicates five
periods of vegetation change. At 10,300 cal yr B.P. Pinus-Juniperus parkland colonized the valley and by 7600 cal yr B.P. was replaced by mixed stands of Pinus, Picea and Pseudotsuga/Larix. Fire frequencies increased to their Holocene maximums during the 8200–4000 cal yr B.P. period. From 5500–4500 cal yr B.P.
Pseudotsuga/Larix reached its maximum extent in the Kootenay Valley under a more frequent fire regime. At 5000 cal yr B.P. Picea and Abies began to expand in the area and by 4500 cal yr B.P. the forest shifted to a closed montane spruce forest type with dramatically
reduced fire frequency. The shift to less frequent forest fires after 4500 cal yr B.P., along with a moisterPicea – dominated closed forest, corresponds to Neoglacial advances in the Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains. Fire intervals
after 4000 cal yr B.P. are significantly longer than the shorter fire intervals of the early to mid Holocene. A return to
drier, more open forest condition occurs between 2400–1200 cal yr B.P. with a slight increase in fire activity and summer
drought events. Lower lake levels inferred by charophyte accumulation rates during the 2400–1200 cal yr B.P. interval support
this moisture regime shift. An abrupt shift toPicea dominated forest occurred from 1200–1000 cal yr B.P. and a final period of wet-closed forest cover reaches its maximum extent
from 700–150 cal yr B.P. that appears to be a response to Little Ice Age cooling. Present forests are within their natural
range of variability but are predicted to shift again to a drier more open structure with increased Pseudotsuga/Larix cover. More frequent stand replacing fires and increased area burned likely will accompany this change due to continued global
warming. 相似文献
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M. E. Kirby S. P. Lund W. P. Patterson M. A. Anderson B. W. Bird L. Ivanovici P. Monarrez S. Nielsen 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,44(3):819-839
High-resolution terrestrial records of Holocene climate from Southern California are scarce. Moreover, there are no records
of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) variability, a major driver of decadal to multi-decadal climate variability for the region,
older than 1,000 years. Recent research on Lake Elsinore, however, has shown that the lake’s sediments hold excellent potential
for paleoenvironmental analysis and reconstruction. New 1-cm contiguous grain size data reveal a more complex Holocene climate
history for Southern California than previously recognized at the site. A modern comparison between the twentieth century
PDO index, lake level change, San Jacinto River discharge, and percent sand suggests that sand content is a reasonable, qualitative
proxy for PDO-related, hydrologic variability at both multi-decadal-to-centennial as well as event (i.e. storm) timescales.
A depositional model is proposed to explain the sand-hydrologic proxy. The sand-hydrologic proxy data reveal nine centennial-scale
intervals of wet and dry climate throughout the Holocene. Percent total sand values >1.5 standard deviation above the 150–9,700 cal year
BP average are frequent between 9,700 and 3,200 cal year BP (n = 41), but they are rare from 3,200 to 150 cal year BP (n = 6). This disparity is interpreted as a change in the frequency of exceptionally wet (high discharge) years and/or changes
in large storm activity. A comparison to other regional hydrologic proxies (10 sites) shows more then occasional similarities
across the region (i.e. 6 of 9 Elsinore wet intervals are present at >50% of the comparison sites). Only the early Holocene
and the Little Ice Age intervals, however, are interpreted consistently across the region as uniformly wet (≥80% of the comparison
sites). A comparison to two ENSO reconstructions indicates little, if any, correlation to the Elsinore data, suggesting that
ENSO variability is not the predominant forcing of Holocene climate in Southern California. 相似文献
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Sébastien Bertrand François Charlet Bernard Charlier Virginie Renson Nathalie Fagel 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2008,39(2):179-195
This paper presents a multi-proxy climate record of an 11 m long core collected in Lago Puyehue (southern Chile, 40°S) and
extending back to 18,000 cal yr BP. The multi-proxy analyses include sedimentology, mineralogy, grain size, geochemistry,
loss-on-ignition, magnetic susceptibility and radiocarbon dating. Results demonstrate that sediment grain size is positively
correlated with the biogenic sediment content and can be used as a proxy for lake paleoproductivity. On the other hand, the
magnetic susceptibility signal is correlated with the aluminium and titanium concentrations and can be used as a proxy for
the terrigenous supply. Temporal variations of sediment composition evidence that, since the Last Glacial Maximum, the Chilean
Lake District was characterized by three abrupt climate changes superimposed on a long-term climate evolution. These rapid
climate changes are: (1) an abrupt warming at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum at 17,300 cal yr BP; (2) a 13,100–12,300
cal yr BP cold event, ending rapidly and interpreted as the local counterpart of the Younger Dryas cold period, and (3) a
3,400–2,900 cal yr BP climatic instability synchronous with a period of low solar activity. The timing of the 13,100–12,300
cold event is compared with similar records in both hemispheres and demonstrates that this southern hemisphere climate change
precedes the northern hemisphere Younger Dryas cold period by 500 to 1,000 years.
This is the third in a series of eight papers published in this special issue dedicated to the 17,900 year multi-proxy lacustrine record of
Lago Puyehue, Chilean Lake District. The papers in this special issue were collected by M. De Batist, N. Fagel, M.-F. Loutre
and E. Chapron. 相似文献
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The timing of the last deglaciation in southern Chile is re-evaluated from a calendar varve chronology (Lago Puyehue, 40° S).
The climate shifts are analysed by continuous annual varve-thickness measurements through the ∼17,100 cal. year to 10,800 cal.
year BP time window (∼3.5 m sediment core). The varve years are determined by the alternation of light (phytoplankton-rich)
and dark (terrigenous and organic-rich) layers forming graded annual couplets (∼0.2 to 0.8 mm/year). The varve chronology
is constructed by conventional varve-counting methods on thin sections after correction for instantaneous volcanic and/or
seismic events detected in the thin sections. The calibrated varve-age model derived from the manual varve counting is constrained
by high-resolution grey-scale (GS) semi-automatic counts of the annual light phytoplankton-rich layers (∼120 μm to 300 μm
thick). Due to physical sediment properties the GS constitutes a proxy record for the phytoplankton/terrigenous varve-thickness
variations through the sediment record. The varve couplets are thicker/thinner during humid/dry phases and darker/lighter
(negative/positive annual grey-scale index) during cold/warm phases. Our results show that at 40° S the last deglaciation
took place in two phases between ∼17,100 cal. year and ∼15,500 cal. year BP. We note a climate instability between ∼15,500 cal.
year and 13,300 cal. year BP and a significant dry phase between ∼15,000 and 14,500 cal. year BP. We evidence a cold event
in two phases between ∼13,300 and 12,200 cal. year BP interrupted by a dry event between ∼12,800 and 12,600 cal. year BP.
The onset of a significant warmer period is observed after ∼11,500 cal. year BP. Our results provide new evidence of a Younger
Dryas cool reversal in southern Chile, i.e., the Huelmo/Mascardi event Hajdas et al. (2003) associated with an abrupt dry
pulse at ∼12,800–12,600 cal. year BP. The high-resolution grey-scale measurements performed on the biogenic varves from Lago
Puyehue provide a reliable calibrated chronology of the regional environmental and climate shifts during the last deglaciation.
This is eighth in a series of eight papers published in this special issue dedicated to the 17,900 year multi-proxy lacustrine record of
Lago Puyehue, Chilean Lake District. The papers in this issue were collected by M. De Batist, N. Fagel, M.-F. Loutre and E.
Chapron. 相似文献
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Jennifer M. Galloway R. Timothy Patterson Christine T. Doherty Helen M. Roe 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,38(4):569-588
Pollen and diatoms preserved in the radiocarbon dated sediments of Two Frog Lake in the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex of the
central mainland coast of British Columbia document postglacial climate change. Two Frog Lake was isolated from the sea prior
to 11,040 ± 50 yr BP (13,030 cal. yr BP) when the climate was cool and dry, and open Pinus contorta woodlands covered the landscape. These woodlands were replaced by a mixed conifer forest ca. 10,200 yr BP (ca. 12,300 cal.
yr BP) when the climate became moister. A relatively dry and warm early Holocene climate allowed Pseudotsuga menziesii to migrate northward to this site where it grew with Picea, Tsuga heterophylla and Alnus. The climate became cooler and moister at ca. 8,000 yr BP (ca. 9,200 cal. yr BP), approximately 500–1,000 years prior to
sites located south of Two Frog Lake and on the Queen Charlotte Islands, but contemporary with sites on the northern mainland
coast of British Columbia and south coastal Alaska. Climate heterogeneity in central coastal British Columbia appears to have
occurred on a synoptic scale, suggesting that atmospheric dynamics linked to a variable Aleutian Low pressure system may have
had an important influence on early Holocene climate change in the Seymour-Belize Inlet Complex. The transition to cooler
and moister conditions facilitated the expansion of Cupressaceae and the establishment of a modern-type coastal temperate
rainforest dominated by Cupressaceae and T. heterophylla. This was associated with progressive lake acidification. Diatom changes independent of vegetation change during the late
Holocene are correlative with the mid-Neoglacial period, when cooler temperatures altered diatom communities. 相似文献
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Serpent River Bog lies north of North Channel, 10 m above Lake Huron and 15 m below the Nipissing Great Lake level. A 2.3 m
Holocene sequence contains distinct alternating beds of inorganic clastic clay and organic peat that are interpreted as evidence
of successive inundation and isolation by highstands and lowstands of the large Huron-Basin lake. Lowstand phases are confirmed
by the presence of shallow-water pollen and plant macrofossil remains in peat units. Twelve 14C dates on peat, wood and plant macrofossils combined with previously published 14C ages of lake-level indicators confirm much of the known early Holocene lake-level history with one notable exception. A
new Late Mattawa highstand (8,390 [9,400 cal]–8,220 [9,200 cal] BP) evidenced by a sticky blue-grey clay bed is tied to outburst
floods of glacial Lake Minong during erosion of the Nadoway drift barrier in the eastern Lake Superior basin. A subsequent
Late Mattawa highstand (8,110 [9,040 cal]–8,060 [8,970 cal] BP) is attributed to enhanced meltwater inflows that first had
deposited thick varves throughout Superior Basin. Inundation by the Nadoway floods and possibly the last Mattawa flood were
likely responsible for termination of the Olson Forest (southern Lake Michigan). A pollen diagram supports the recognized
progression of Holocene vegetation, and defines a subzone implying a very dry, cool climate about 7.8–7.5 (8.6–8.3 cal) ka
BP based on the Alnus crispa profile during the Late Stanley lowstand. A new date of 9,470 ± 25 (10,680–10,750 cal) BP on basal peat over lacustrine clay
at Espanola West Bog supports the previous interpretation of the Early Mattawa highstand at ca. 9,500 (10,740 cal) BP. The
organic and clastic sediment units at these two bogs are correlated with other records showing coherent evidence of Holocene
repeated inundation and isolation around northern Lake Huron. Taken together the previous and new lake-level data suggest
that the Huron and Georgian basin lakes were mainly closed lowstands throughout early Holocene time except for short-lived
highstands. Three of the lowstands were exceptionally low, and likely caused three episodes of offshore sediment erosion which
had been previously identified as seismo-stratigraphic sequence boundaries. 相似文献
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天堂寨泥炭地层的磁化率、Rb/Sr值及其反映的古气候意义 总被引:17,自引:11,他引:6
天堂寨泥炭地层记录了大别山北亚热带地区全新世中晚期以来气候变化。通过对地层剖面磁化率、Rb/Sr值测定和分析,结合14C测年,结果表明:大别山北亚热带地区中晚期以来气候变化可划分5个阶段:(1)5 700~5 050 cal.a B.P.,气候暖湿为主;(2)5 050~4 300 cal.a B.P.,以暖干为主,期间气候波动剧烈,气温出现过短暂而急剧的下降;(3)4 300~2 500 cal.a B.P.,气候总体上处于相对冷湿状态,波动不大;(4)2 500~1 400cal.a B.P.,气温有所回升;(5)1 400 cal.a B.P.至今,气候冷干;至现代,气候又有所回升。磁化率和Rb/Sr比值可作为泥炭恢复古气候古环境的代用指标,但与黄土剖面中所指示的环境意义正好相反,即低磁化率和Rb/Sr比值指示气候湿热,高磁化率和Rb/Sr比值指示气候干冷。 相似文献
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Matthew E. Kirby Steve P. Lund Michael A. Anderson Broxton W. Bird 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,38(3):395-417
Lake Elsinore is the largest natural lake in Southern California. As such, the lake provides a unique opportunity to investigate
terrestrial climate on timescales otherwise underrepresented in the region’s terrestrial environment. In November 2003, three
∼10 m drill cores were extracted from the depocenter region of Lake Elsinore. These drill cores, spanning the past 9,500–11,200
calendar years, represent the first complete Holocene record of terrestrial climate from Southern California. In this paper,
we focus on two adjacent, depocenter cores (LEGC03-2 and LEGC03-3), which have been correlated to develop a single composite
core. Twenty-two AMS 14C dates on bulk organic matter and one cross-correlated exotic pollen age constitute the composite core’s age control. Several
methods of analysis, including mass magnetic susceptibility, % total organic matter, % total carbonate, % HCl-extractable
Al, and total inorganic P are used to infer climate for the past 9,500 calendar years in Southern California. Together, these
data indicate a wet early Holocene followed by a long-term drying trend. Recent lake-level reconstructions from Owens Lake
and Tulare Lake support our contention for a wetter-than-today early Holocene. Lacustrine sediments from the Mojave Desert
also support our conclusions. We suggest that over the duration of the Holocene changing summer/winter insolation alters the
region’s long-term hydrologic balance through its modulation of atmospheric circulation and its associated storm tracks. Minimum
early Holocene winter insolation and maximum summer insolation act together to increase the region’s total annual precipitation
by increasing the frequency of winter storms as well as enhancing the magnitude and spatial extent of the North American monsoon,
the frequency of land-falling tropical cyclones in Southern California, and regional convective storms, respectively. Gradual
decreases in summer insolation and increases in winter insolation produce the opposite effect with maximum drying in the late
Holocene. 相似文献
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Steven A. Jennings 《自然地理学》2013,34(4):276-288
Data from packrat middens are used to reconstruct the migration of single-leaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla) and Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma) in the White Mountain region of California and Nevada for the last 20,000 years. Today this region is characterized by arid conditions with dry summers. Pinyon woodlands, which are favored by dry summer conditions, are dominant at middle elevations of the White Mountains. The midden record indicates that during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, juniper was dominant at elevations now occupied by desert shrubs. A late Pleistocene-early Holocene record of desert shrubs was found only in the double rainshadow of the Sierra Nevada and the White Mountains. Pinyon entered the area during the Holocene (ca. 9000 yr B.P.) and subsequently became more important than juniper. During the late Holocene, desert shrubs became established at the lower elevation sites that they now occupy. The late Pleistocene-early Holocene record indicates that there may have been a more zonal upper-level wind flow and associated penetration of Pacific moisture, as indicated by the occurrence of desert shrubs downwind of the north-south-trending mountain ranges. Zonal flow probably became less important during the early Holocene based on the increasing amount of pinyon. The increase in pinyon also may indicate a change from an even seasonal distribution of precipitation to the dry summer conditions presently found in the region. [Key words: biogeography, packrat middens, Great Basin paleoenvironments, Pinus monophylla, Juniperus osteosperma, White Mountains.] 相似文献
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I. Mazzini C. Faranda M. Giardini C. Giraudi L. Sadori 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2011,45(2):243-256
We present a Holocene record of climate and environmental change in central New York (USA) inferred using lithologic and stable
isotope data from two sediment cores recovered in Cayuga Lake. The record was divided into three intervals: (1) early Holocene
(~11.6–8.8 ka), (2) Hypsithermal (~8.8–4.4 ka), and (3) Neoglacial (~4.4 ka to present). The early Holocene began abruptly,
with rising lake level and relatively deep water. Between ~10.8 and 9.2 ka, cool and dry conditions prevailed at a time of
maximum solar insolation. This anomaly has been referred to as the “post-Younger Dryas climate interval” and lasted ~1,600 years,
the approximate length of one “Bond cycle.” The Hypsithermal was the warmest, wettest and most biologically productive interval
of the Holocene in central New York. The Hypsithermal was characterized by centennial to multi-centennial-scale variability.
The 8.2 ka event is one such variation. The Neoglacial was an interval of generally cooler and dryer conditions, falling lake
levels, and several prominent climate anomalies. At approximately 2.4 ka, δ13C of bulk organic matter increased abruptly by 5‰ as lake level declined, and the lake flora was dominated by Chara sp. during the coldest interval of the Neoglacial. Numerous sediment variables display increased variability ~2.0 ka, which continues
today. Archaeological data from the literature suggest that Native American populations may have been large enough to impact
land cover by about 2.4 ka and we hypothesize that the “Anthropocene” began at about that time in central New York. We also
found paleolimnological evidence for the Medieval Warm Period (~1.4–0.5 ka), which was warmer and wetter than today, and for
the Little Ice Age (~500–150 years ago), a period with temperatures colder than today. 相似文献
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We examined long-term relationships between Cladocera and limnogeological and climate variables in a late Holocene lake sediment sequence to assess cladoceran responses to climate change and reconstruct past climate variations in southern Finland, near the Baltic Sea coast. Elemental composition, organic matter, and inferred water quality variables were used to constrain paleoenvironmental (until 4500 cal BP) conditions and human impact. Fossil Cladocera assemblages, ephippia, and body size trends were utilized to estimate mean July air temperature (T Jul) variability, open-water season length, and water-temperature regimes. Results revealed stable cladoceran communities, dominated by Eubosmina, until 500 cal BP, followed by major assemblage changes including increases in Chydorus cf. sphaericus, Alonella spp., and Bosmina longirostris. Pb and Cu concentrations were associated temporally with increasing human impact and warming climate during the past few centuries, and were the most significant factors in explaining cladoceran community changes, based on redundancy analysis. A Cladocera-based T Jul reconstruction estimated elevated temperatures for the end of the Holocene Thermal Maximum, a cooler period during ~3000–2000 cal BP, slightly increased temperatures during 1200–800 cal BP corresponding to the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA), and lower temperatures during the Little Ice Age (LIA), 800–200 cal BP. The reconstruction also suggests that significant climate warming took place during the twentieth century. Cladocerans mostly associated with warm periods included B. longirostris and Pleuroxus uncinatus, whereas Alona affinis, A. quadrangularis, and C. cf. sphaericus were associated with colder climate. Compared to a reference Chironomidae-inferred T Jul reconstruction from the same region, discrepancies were apparent in amplitude of temperature change, as the temperature variability in the cladoceran-based record was muted until ~200 cal BP. During the LIA, increased ephippia and body size agreed with the temperature reconstruction, but suggested a severely shorter open-water season and reduced water temperatures compared to the preceding late Holocene episodes, even though the cladoceran T Jul showed quite similar temperatures for these periods. Our results suggest that fossil cladoceran assemblages, ephippia, and morphological attributes respond sensitively to long-term climate fluctuations and this record reflects well the major climate events of the late Holocene and provides realistic paleoclimatic estimates for maritime southern Finland. 相似文献
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Bigcone spruce is a conifer endemic to southern California. Two new tree-ring chronologies were developed utilizing individuals of this species growing at two sites in the San Rafael mountains of Santa Barbara County. Climate growth response functions were determined for these chronologies and for an existing bigcone spruce chronology from the San Bernardino mountains farther east. Bigcone spruce is particularly well suited for dendrochronological analysis given its longevity (800 years) and the strong relationship between growth and precipitation. Growth in the current year depends strongly on growth in the previous two years (22-46% of total chronology variance). After removing the effects of prior growth, response functions based on precipitation alone account for 43-51% of chronology variance, while those based on precipitation and temperature explain 52-76% of total variance. Response functions indicate a strong positive relationship between growth and winter and spring precipitation, and a negative relationship with early spring and early summer temperatures. The response functions for big-cone spruce are distinctive from those published for other western conifers, and are consistent with the unique characteristics of the mediterranean climatic regime. 相似文献
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W. Wyatt Oswald Daniel G. Gavin Patricia M. Anderson Linda B. Brubaker Feng Sheng Hu 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2012,48(1):101-113
Analyses of lithology, organic-matter content, magnetic susceptibility, and pollen in a sediment core from Okpilak Lake, located in the northeastern Brooks Range, provide new insights into the history of climate, landscape processes, and vegetation in northern Alaska since 14,500?cal?year BP. The late-glacial interval (>11,600?cal?year BP) featured sparse vegetation cover and the erosion of minerogenic sediment into the lake from nearby hillslopes, as evidenced by Cyperaceae-dominated pollen assemblages and high magnetic susceptibility (MS) values. Betula expanded in the early Holocene (11,600?C8,500?cal?year BP), reducing mass wasting on the landscape, as reflected by lower MS. Holocene sediments contain a series of silt- and clay-dominated layers, and given their physical characteristics and the topographic setting of the lake on the braided outwash plain of the Okpilak River, the inorganic layers are interpreted as rapidly deposited fluvial sediments, likely associated with intervals of river aggradation, changes in channel planform, and periodic overbank flow via a channel that connects the river and lake. The episodes of fluvial dynamics and aggradation appear to have been related to regional environmental variability, including a period of glacial retreat during the early Holocene, as well as glacial advances in the middle Holocene (5,500?C5,200?cal?year BP) and during the Little Ice Age (500?C400?cal?year BP). The rapid deposition of multiple inorganic layers during the early Holocene, including thick layers at 10,900?C10,000 and 9,400?C9,200?cal?year BP, suggests that it was a particularly dynamic interval of fluvial activity and landscape change. 相似文献
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Mieke Sterken Elie Verleyen Koen Sabbe Griet Terryn Francois Charlet Sébastien Bertrand Xavier Boës Nathalie Fagel Marc De Batist Wim Vyverman 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2008,39(2):219-235
A late Quaternary diatom stratigraphy of Lago Puyehue (40°40′ S, 72°28′ W) was examined in order to infer past limnological and climatic changes in the South-Chilean Lake District. The diatom assemblages were well preserved in a 1,122 cm long, 14C-dated sediment core spanning the last 17,900 years, and were in support of an early deglaciation of Lago Puyehue. The presence of a short cold spell in South Chile, equivalent to the Younger Dryas event in the Northern Hemisphere, the Antarctic Cold Reversal in Antarctica, or the Huelmo-Mascardi event in southern South America, was not clearly evidenced in the diatom data, although some climate instability may have occurred between 13,400 and 11,700 cal. yr. BP, and a relatively long period (between 16,850 and 12,810 cal. yr. BP) with low absolute abundances and biovolumes could be tentatively interpreted as a period of low rainfall and/or temperatures. An increase in the moisture supply to the lake was tentatively inferred at 12,810 cal. yr. BP. After 9,550 cal. yr. BP, inferred stronger and longer persisting summer stratification, may have been the result of the higher temperatures associated with an early-Holocene thermal optimum. The mid-Holocene appeared to be characterized by a decrease in precipitation, culminating around 5,000 cal. yr. BP, and rising again after 3,000 cal. yr. BP, likely associated with a previously documented lowered frequency and amplitude of El Niño events. An increase in precipitation during the late Holocene (3,000 cal. yr. BP–present) might have marked subsequent increased frequency of El Niño occurrences, leading to drier summers and slightly moister winters in the area. 相似文献
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Ricarda Voigt Eberhard Grüger Janina Baier Dieter Meischner 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2008,40(4):1021-1052
Studies combining sedimentological and biological evidence to reconstruct Holocene climate beyond the major changes, and especially
seasonality, are rare in Europe, and are nearly completely absent in Germany. The present study tries to reconstruct changes
of seasonality from evidence of annual algal successions within the framework of well-established pollen zonation and 14C-AMS dates from terrestrial plants. Laminated Holocene sediments in Lake Jues (10°20.7′ E, 51°39.3′ N, 241 m a.s.l.), located
at the SW margin of the Harz Mountains, central Germany, were studied for sediment characteristics, pollen, diatoms and coccal
green algae. An age model is based on 21 calibrated AMS radiocarbon dates from terrestrial plants. The sedimentary record
covers the entire Holocene period. Trophic status and circulation/stagnation patterns of the lake were inferred from algal
assemblages, the subannual structure of varves and the physico-chemical properties of the sediment. During the Holocene, mixing
conditions alternated between di-, oligo- and meromictic depending on length and variability of spring and fall periods, and
the stability of winter and summer weather. The trophic state was controlled by nutrient input, circulation patterns and the
temperature-dependent rates of organic production and mineralization. Climate shifts, mainly in phase with those recorded
from other European regions, are inferred from changing limnological conditions and terrestrial vegetation. Significant changes
occurred at 11,600 cal. yr. BP (Preboreal warming), between 10,600 and 10,100 cal. yr. BP (Boreal cooling), and between 8,400
and 4,550 cal. yr. BP (warm and dry interval of the Atlantic). Since 4,550 cal. yr. BP the climate became gradually cooler,
wetter and more oceanic. This trend was interrupted by warmer and dryer phases between 3,440 and 2,850 cal. yr. BP and, likely,
between 2,500 and 2,250 cal. yr. BP. 相似文献
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在中亚热带罗霄山脉东南段井冈山地区的江西坳山地沼泽钻取了150 cm的岩芯样品(JXA钻孔),通过6个AMS 14C测年结果建立钻孔的年代框架,运用烧失量、腐殖化度、有机碳同位素和灰度值等多项古气候代用指标分析,重建了该地区约11 cal. ka B.P.以来的气候演化历史。结果表明:江西坳山地沼泽的古环境演变过程可以分为4个阶段:11―9.2 cal. ka B.P.钻孔沉积物的有机碳含量低,碳同位素偏负,显示C3植物为主,为气候凉干期;9.2―5.3 cal. ka B.P.碳同位素、有机碳和腐殖化度等指标均指示森林植被繁茂,沉积物泥炭堆积速度加快,为气候最适宜期;5.3―2.2 cal. ka B.P.碳同位素显著变化,有机质含量较高;2.2―0 cal. ka B.P.气候呈现季风再次增强的趋势,人类活动增强。与周边其他的研究结果对比发现:全新世以来罗霄山脉江西坳山地泥炭沼泽的古环境替代指标与低纬度地区其他全新世气候记录基本一致。 相似文献
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Lucia Wick Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen Willem O. van der Knaap André F. Lotter 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2003,30(3):261-272
Pollen and plant macrofossils were analysed at Sägistalsee (1935 m asl), a small lake near timber-line in the Swiss Northern Alps. Open forests with Pinus cembra and Abies alba covered the catchment during the early Holocene (9000–6300 cal. BP), suggesting subcontinental climate conditions. After the expansion of Picea abies between 6300 and 6000 cal. BP the subalpine forest became denser and the tree-line reached its maximum elevation at around 2260 m asl. Charcoal fragments in the macrofossil record indicate the beginning of Late-Neolithic human impact at ca. 4400 cal. BP, followed by a extensive deforestation and lowering of the forest-limit in the catchment of Sägistalsee at 3700 cal. BP (Bronze Age). Continuous human activity, combined with a more oceanic climate during the later Holocene, led to the local extinction of Pinus cembra and Abies alba and favoured the mass expansion of Picea and Alnus viridis in the subalpine area of the Northern Alps. The periods before 6300 and after 3700 cal. BP are characterised by high erosion activity in the lake's catchment, whereas during the phase of dense Picea-Pinus cembra-Abies forests (6300–3700 cal. BP) soils were stable and sediment-accumulation rates in the lake were low. Due to decreasing land-use at higher altitudes during the Roman occupation and the Migration period, forests spread beween ca. 2000 and 1500 cal. BP, before human impact increased again in the early Middle Ages. Recent reforestation due to land-use changes in the 20th century is recorded in the top sediments. Pollen-inferred July temperature and annual precipitation suggest a trend to cooler and more oceanic climate starting at about 5500 cal. BP. 相似文献
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A temperature reconstruction using chironomids was attempted at Egelsee, Switzerland, a site where pollen and macrofossil
records showed a correspondence between vegetation and climatic changes inferred by other proxies in Europe. The general pattern
of temperature changes inferred from chironomids during the Late Glacial [i.e. cold temperatures between ca. 16,500 and 14,800 cal
BP, close to present-day temperature between 15,000 and 13,000 cal BP and colder temperatures during the Younger Dryas (YD)],
and the major temperature changes of the Holocene (i.e. the Younger Dryas–Holocene transition and the Late Holocene cooling
trend) at Egelsee, were mirrored in other European climate reconstructions using various proxies. However, the amplitude of
temperature changes during the YD was smaller than reconstructed by other proxies at various sites, and the 8,200 years BP
event was not apparent. These differences between records were probably due to the dominance of Corynocera ambigua, with percentages reaching 60% in parts of the Egelsee sequence. This taxon was not present in any of the 103 lakes used
for the transfer function and its absence may have yielded less accurate inferences. Its presence in samples only associated
with cold inferences at Egelsee suggests that this taxon is a cold indicator. However, it was also found in warm Danish lakes
and the factors that determine the presence of C. ambigua remain unexplained. Most samples had a poor fit to temperature and instead, dissolved organic carbon seemed to be a factor
influencing the chironomid assemblages during the Holocene. These results illustrate the need to better understand the ecology
of chironomids and to disentangle the various factors that affect chironomid communities through time. Ultimately, such information
will lead to more accurate temperature reconstructions. 相似文献