Hydroclimatic and cultural instability in northeastern North America during the last millennium.
Long-term, large-scale perspectives are necessary for understanding climate variability and its effects on ecosystems and cultures. Tree ring records of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and Little Ice Age (LIA) have documented major hydroclimatic variability during the last millennium in the Ameri...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d22b1f78f94f414fbbea210c376d1c3c 2023-05-15T12:58:54+02:00 Hydroclimatic and cultural instability in northeastern North America during the last millennium. J Curt Stager Brendan Wiltse Brian F Cumming Timothy C Messner Joshua Robtoy Sidney Cushing 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248060 https://doaj.org/article/d22b1f78f94f414fbbea210c376d1c3c EN eng Public Library of Science (PLoS) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248060 https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203 1932-6203 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0248060 https://doaj.org/article/d22b1f78f94f414fbbea210c376d1c3c PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 3, p e0248060 (2021) Medicine R Science Q article 2021 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248060 2022-12-31T10:31:09Z Long-term, large-scale perspectives are necessary for understanding climate variability and its effects on ecosystems and cultures. Tree ring records of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and Little Ice Age (LIA) have documented major hydroclimatic variability during the last millennium in the American West, but fewer continuous, high-resolution hydroclimate records of the MCA-LIA period are available for eastern North America, particularly during the transition from the MCA to the LIA (ca. A.D. 1250-1400). Diatoms (micro-algae with silica cell walls) in sediment cores from three Adirondack (NY, USA) lakes and a hiatus in a wetland peat deposit in the Adirondack uplands provide novel insights into the late Holocene hydroclimate history of the Northeast. These records demonstrate that two of the region's most extreme decadal-scale droughts of the last millennium occurred ca. A.D. 1260-1330 and ca. A.D. 1360-1390 during a dry-wet-dry (DWD) oscillation in the Adirondacks that contributed to forest fires and desiccation of wetlands in New York and Maine. The bimodal drying was probably related to more extreme droughts farther west and coincided with major events in Iroquoian and Abenaki cultural history. Although the causes of the DWD oscillation in the Adirondacks remain uncertain, changing sea-surface temperatures and solar variability are likely to have played a role. Article in Journal/Newspaper abenaki Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles PLOS ONE 16 3 e0248060 |
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Long-term, large-scale perspectives are necessary for understanding climate variability and its effects on ecosystems and cultures. Tree ring records of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and Little Ice Age (LIA) have documented major hydroclimatic variability during the last millennium in the American West, but fewer continuous, high-resolution hydroclimate records of the MCA-LIA period are available for eastern North America, particularly during the transition from the MCA to the LIA (ca. A.D. 1250-1400). Diatoms (micro-algae with silica cell walls) in sediment cores from three Adirondack (NY, USA) lakes and a hiatus in a wetland peat deposit in the Adirondack uplands provide novel insights into the late Holocene hydroclimate history of the Northeast. These records demonstrate that two of the region's most extreme decadal-scale droughts of the last millennium occurred ca. A.D. 1260-1330 and ca. A.D. 1360-1390 during a dry-wet-dry (DWD) oscillation in the Adirondacks that contributed to forest fires and desiccation of wetlands in New York and Maine. The bimodal drying was probably related to more extreme droughts farther west and coincided with major events in Iroquoian and Abenaki cultural history. Although the causes of the DWD oscillation in the Adirondacks remain uncertain, changing sea-surface temperatures and solar variability are likely to have played a role. |
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Hydroclimatic and cultural instability in northeastern North America during the last millennium. |
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Hydroclimatic and cultural instability in northeastern North America during the last millennium. |
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Hydroclimatic and cultural instability in northeastern North America during the last millennium. |
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