Mid- to late-Holocene coastal vegetation patterns in Northern Levant (Tell Sukas, Syria): Olive tree cultivation history and climatic change

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Sorrel ◽  
Marie Mathis
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Olive Tree ◽  
Coastal Vegetation ◽  
Vegetation Patterns ◽  
Cultivation History

Croatia's mid-Late Holocene (5200-3200 BP) coastal vegetation shaped by human societies

2018 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 334-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kaniewski ◽  
Nick Marriner ◽  
Christophe Morhange ◽  
Damien Rius ◽  
Marie-Brigitte Carre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Coastal Vegetation

Palynological evidence for vegetation patterns in the Transvaal (South Africa) during the late Pleistocene and Holocene

Bothalia ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 445-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Vegetation Patterns ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Maximum Period ◽  
Plant Migrations ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
Semi Arid ◽  
The Last Glacial

Palynological evidence relating to the nature of Late Quaternary vegetation types and plant migrations in the Transvaal is briefly summarized. It is suggested that, after an early temperate, relatively moist phase and a subsequent relatively dry phase lasting until about 25 000 yr B.P., a vegetation-type with ericaceous elements developed. It resembled belts presently occurring above the treeline and was possibly widespread over the plains of the Transvaal during the last glacial maximum period. In the central parts of the province, warm semi-arid savanna subsequently expanded during the early Holocene and was followed by a more broad-leafed type of woodland in the late Holocene. This change probably resulted from slightly wetter and, at times, also slightly warmer and cooler conditions.

scholarly journals Can pollution bias peatland paleoclimate reconstruction?

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Payne ◽  
Edward A.D. Mitchell ◽  
Hung Nguyen-Viet ◽  
Daniel Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Testate Amoebae ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Testate Amoeba ◽  
Paleoclimate Reconstruction ◽  
The World ◽  
Pollution Impacts

AbstractPeatland testate amoebae are widely used to reconstruct paleohydrological/climatic changes, but many species are also known to respond to pollutants. Peatlands around the world have been exposed to anthropogenic and intermittent natural pollution through the late Holocene. This raises the question: can pollution lead to changes in the testate amoeba paleoecological record that could be erroneously interpreted as a climatic change? To address this issue we applied testate amoeba transfer functions to the results of experiments adding pollutants (N, P, S, Pb, O3) to peatlands and similar ecosystems. We found a significant effect in only one case, an experiment in which N and P were added, suggesting that pollution-induced biases are limited. However, we caution researchers to be aware of this possibility when interpreting paleoecological records. Studies characterising the paleoecological response to pollution allow pollution impacts to be tracked and distinguished from climate change.

Vegetation changes and associated climatic changes in the southern Altai Mountains within China during the Holocene

The Holocene ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 683-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaodong Feng ◽  
Aizhi Sun ◽  
Nurbayev Abdusalih ◽  
Min Ran ◽  
Alishir Kurban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Mean Annual Precipitation ◽  
Mean Annual Temperature ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Altai Mountains ◽  
Pollen Data ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
The Pacific

The location of the Altai Mountains at the limits of both the Pacific and Atlantic influences implies that this mountain range is an important climatic boundary. Based on pollen data of 188 samples of a 390-cm core from Narenxia Peat in the southern Altai with a chronologic support of 11 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates, we reconstructed the Holocene climatic change at Narenxia Peat. The reconstruction revealed five stages of climatic change: a cold and dry latest deglacial (prior to ~11,500 cal. yr BP), a warm and wet early-Holocene (~11,500 to ~7000 cal. yr BP), a considerably cooled and dried middle Holocene (~7000 to ~4000 cal. yr BP), a resumed warm and wet late-Holocene (~4000 to ~1200 cal. yr BP), and a relatively cool and dry latest Holocene (past ~1200 years). The reconstructions of mean annual temperature (MAT) and mean annual precipitation (MAP) from Narenxia Peat well resemble the reconstructions of North Atlantic Oscillations (NAO) and El Niño–Southern Oscillations (ENSO). The resemblance implies that the Holocene millennial-scale changes in MAT and MAP in the Altai might have been causally associated with the variations in NAO and ENSO.

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