Structure and origin of Holocene cold events

H Wanner, O Solomina, M Grosjean, SP Ritz… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The present interglacial, the Holocene, spans the period of the last 11,700 years. It has
sustained the growth and development of modern society. The millennial-scale decreasing …

The origin of grasslands in the temperate forest zone of east-central Europe: long-term legacy of climate and human impact

P Kuneš, H Svobodová-Svitavská, J Kolář… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The post-glacial fate of central European grasslands has stimulated palaeoecological
debates for a century. Some argued for the continuous survival of open land, while others …

Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe

H Seppä, AE Bjune, RJ Telford, HJB Birks… - Climate of the …, 2009 - cp.copernicus.org
The threat of future global warming has generated a major interest in quantifying past
climate variability on centennial and millennial time-scales. However, palaeoclimatological …

Radiocarbon dating from Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery reveals complex human responses to socio-ecological stress during the 8.2 ka cooling event

RJ Schulting, K Mannermaa, PE Tarasov… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Karelia, northwest Russia, is one of the largest Early
Holocene cemeteries in northern Eurasia, with 177 burials recovered in excavations in the …

The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland: overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

RM Fyfe, C Twiddle, S Sugita, MJ Gaillard… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The vegetation of Europe has undergone substantial changes during the course of the
Holocene epoch, resulting from range expansion of plants following climate amelioration …

Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records

I Dormoy, O Peyron, N Combourieu Nebout… - Climate of the …, 2009 - cp.copernicus.org
Pollen-based climate reconstructions were performed on two high-resolution pollen marines
cores from the Alboran and Aegean Seas in order to unravel the climatic variability in the …

Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe

A García-Escárzaga, I Gutiérrez-Zugasti… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The cooling and drying associated with the so-called '8.2 ka event'have long been
hypothesized as having swee** implications for human societies in the Early Holocene …

Quantitative reconstructions of changes in regional openness in north-central Europe reveal new insights into old questions

AB Nielsen, T Giesecke, M Theuerkauf, I Feeser… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
By applying the recently developed model REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation
Abundance from Large Sites)(Sugita, 2007) to pollen data from a large number of sites …

Vegetation and climate history in the Westeifel Volcanic Field (Germany) during the past 11 000 years based on annually laminated lacustrine maar sediments

T Litt, C Schölzel, N Kühl, A Brauer - Boreas, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Lakes Holzmaar and Meerfelder Maar are located in the Westeifel Volcanic Field less than
10 km apart. Both maar lakes are well known for their annually laminated (varved) …

Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate variability in NW Romania

A Feurdean, S Klotz, V Mosbrugger… - Palaeogeography …, 2008 - Elsevier
A modern analogue technique is applied to two high-resolution pollen sequences from NW
Romania to provide the first quantitative evidence for winter, summer and annual …