[HTML][HTML] Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

M Chevalier, BAS Davis, O Heiri, H Seppä… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

The Eurasian steppe belt: Status quo, origin and evolutionary history

H Herbert, F Nikolai, B Karl-Georg, N Barbara… - Turczaninowia, 2019 - cyberleninka.ru
We present a comprehensive review of the characteristics and structure of the Eurasian
steppe and of its evolutionary history in space and time. During the last decades …

Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics

Y Wang, MW Pedersen, IG Alsos, B De Sanctis… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During the last glacial–interglacial cycle, Arctic biotas experienced substantial climatic
changes, yet the nature, extent and rate of their responses are not fully understood …

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

O Mottl, SGA Flantua, KP Bhatta, VA Felde, T Giesecke… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Global vegetation over the past 18,000 years has been transformed first by the climate
changes that accompanied the last deglaciation and again by increasing human pressures; …

Holocene seasonal temperature evolution and spatial variability over the Northern Hemisphere landmass

W Zhang, H Wu, J Cheng, J Geng, Q Li, Y Sun… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the temperature divergence between Holocene proxy reconstructions and
model simulations remains controversial, but it possibly results from potential biases in the …

[HTML][HTML] CHELSA-TraCE21k–high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum

DN Karger, MP Nobis, S Normand… - Climate of the …, 2023 - cp.copernicus.org
High-resolution, downscaled climate model data are used in a wide variety of applications
across environmental sciences. Here we introduce a new, high-resolution dataset, CHELSA …

Northern Hemisphere vegetation change drives a Holocene thermal maximum

AJ Thompson, J Zhu, CJ Poulsen, JE Tierney… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The Holocene thermal maximum, a period of global warmth evident in early to mid-Holocene
proxy reconstructions, is controversial. Most model simulations of the Holocene have not …

The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6–Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

BL Otto-Bliesner, P Braconnot… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
Two interglacial epochs are included in the suite of Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison
Project (PMIP4) simulations in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). The …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …