The last glacial termination

GH Denton, RF Anderson, JR Toggweiler, RL Edwards… - science, 2010 - science.org
A major puzzle of paleoclimatology is why, after a long interval of cooling climate, each late
Quaternary ice age ended with a relatively short warming leg called a termination. We here …

Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change

DA Fordham, ST Jackson, SC Brown, B Huntley… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND Effects of recent global warming have been documented in every biome on
Earth. Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services against future impacts requires …

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

PU Clark, JD Shakun, PA Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011 - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas

BR Rea, R Pellitero, M Spagnolo, P Hughes… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period of rapid climate cooling that occurred at the end of the
last glaciation. Here, we present the first palaeoglacier-derived reconstruction of YD …

Coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean dynamics in Dansgaard-Oeschger events

C Li, A Born - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dansgaard-Oeschger events of the last ice age are among the best studied
abrupt climate changes, yet a comprehensive explanation is still lacking. They are most …

Dansgaard‐Oeschger cycles: Interactions between ocean and sea ice intrinsic to the Nordic seas

TM Dokken, KH Nisancioglu, C Li, DS Battisti… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Dansgaard‐Oeschger (D‐O) cycles are the most dramatic, frequent, and wide‐reaching
abrupt climate changes in the geologic record. On Greenland, D‐O cycles are characterized …

Imprints of glacial refugia in the modern genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris

R Cheddadi, GG Vendramin, T Litt… - Global Ecology and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To understand the impact of glacial refugia and migration pathways on the modern
genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris. Location The study was carried out throughout Europe …

Climate change and evolving human diversity in Europe during the last glacial

C Gamble, W Davies, P Pettitt… - … Transactions of the …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A link between climate change and human evolution during the Pleistocene has often been
assumed but rarely tested. At the macro–evolutionary level Foley showed for hominids that …

Heinrich summers

GH Denton, S Toucanne, AE Putnam… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Millennial-scale climate oscillations of the last ice age registered in Greenland and Antarctic
ice cores did not always vary in unison. A striking example is that the strongest Antarctic …