Abrupt Tropical Vegetation Response to Rapid Climate Changes
Identifying leads and lags between high- and low-latitude abrupt climate shifts is needed to understand where and how such events were triggered. Vascular plant biomarkers preserved in Cariaco basin sediments reveal rapid vegetation changes in northern South America during the last deglaciation, 15,...
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craaas:10.1126/science.1092995 2024-06-23T07:55:01+00:00 Abrupt Tropical Vegetation Response to Rapid Climate Changes Hughen, Konrad A. Eglinton, Timothy I. Xu, Li Makou, Matthew 2004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1092995 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1092995 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science volume 304, issue 5679, page 1955-1959 ISSN 0036-8075 1095-9203 journal-article 2004 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1092995 2024-05-30T08:05:56Z Identifying leads and lags between high- and low-latitude abrupt climate shifts is needed to understand where and how such events were triggered. Vascular plant biomarkers preserved in Cariaco basin sediments reveal rapid vegetation changes in northern South America during the last deglaciation, 15,000 to 10,000 years ago. Comparing the biomarker records to climate proxies from the same sediment core provides a precise measure of the relative timing of changes in different regions. Abrupt deglacial climate shifts in tropical and high-latitude North Atlantic regions were synchronous, whereas changes in tropical vegetation consistently lagged climate shifts by several decades. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science 304 5679 1955 1959 |
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Identifying leads and lags between high- and low-latitude abrupt climate shifts is needed to understand where and how such events were triggered. Vascular plant biomarkers preserved in Cariaco basin sediments reveal rapid vegetation changes in northern South America during the last deglaciation, 15,000 to 10,000 years ago. Comparing the biomarker records to climate proxies from the same sediment core provides a precise measure of the relative timing of changes in different regions. Abrupt deglacial climate shifts in tropical and high-latitude North Atlantic regions were synchronous, whereas changes in tropical vegetation consistently lagged climate shifts by several decades. |
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Abrupt Tropical Vegetation Response to Rapid Climate Changes |
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