FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Deglacial and Holocene vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean from a direct land-sea correlation BT AF DESPRAT, S. COMBOURIEU-NEBOUT, N. ESSALLAMI, L. SICRE, Marie-Alexandrine DORMOY, I. PEYRON, O. SIANI, G. ROUMAZEILLES, V. Bout TURON, J. L. AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:2;5:4;6:4;7:5;8:6;9:7; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:;9:; C1 Univ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805, EPHE, F-33405 Talence, France. UVSQ, CEA, LSCE, CNRS,UMR 1572, F-91198 Gif Sur Yvette, France. Sfax Fac Sci, GEOGLOB, Sfax 3038, Tunisia. Univ Franche Comte, UMR Chronoenvironm 6249, F-25030 Besancon, France. Univ Paris 11, Dept Earth Sci, IDES, F-91405 Orsay, France. Univ Lille 1, CNRS, UMR GEOSYST 8217, F-59655 Villeneuve Dascq, France. Univ Bordeaux 1, CNRS, EPOC UMR 5805, F-33405 Talence, France. C2 UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE UNIV VERSAILLES, FRANCE UNIV SFAX, TUNISIA UNIV FRANCHE COMTE, FRANCE UNIV PARIS 11, FRANCE UNIV LILLE, FRANCE UNIV BORDEAUX, FRANCE IN DOAJ IF 3.482 TC 60 TU Centre national de la recherche scientifique Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives Université Paris-Sud Université de Bordeaux Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines École pratique des hautes études UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00181/29241/27634.pdf LA English DT Article CR IMAGES 1-MD101 MD 140 / PRIVILEGE BO Marion Dufresne AB Despite a large number of studies, the long-term and millennial to centennial-scale climatic variability in the Mediterranean region during the last deglaciation and the Holocene is still debated, including in the southern Central Mediterranean. In this paper, we present a new marine pollen sequence (core MD04-2797CQ) from the Siculo-Tunisian Strait documenting the regional vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean during the last deglaciation and the Holocene. The MD04-2797CQ marine pollen sequence shows that semi-desert plants dominated the vegetal cover in the southern Central Mediterranean between 18.2 and 12.3 ka cal BP, indicating prevailing dry conditions during the deglaciation, even during the Greenland Interstadial (GI)-1. Across the transition Greenland Stadial (GS)-1 -Holocene, Asteraceae-Poaceae steppe became dominant till 10.1 ka cal BP. This record underlines with no chronological ambiguity that even though temperatures increased, deficiency in moisture availability persisted into the early Holocene. Temperate trees and shrubs with heath underbrush or maquis expanded between 10.1 and 6.6 ka, corresponding to Sapropel 1 (S1) interval, while Mediterranean plants only developed from 6.6 ka onwards. These changes in vegetal cover show that the regional climate in southern Central Mediterranean was wetter during S1 and became drier during the mid-to late Holocene. Wetter conditions during S1 were likely due to increased winter precipitation while summers remained dry. We suggest, in agreement with published modeling experiments, that the early Holocene increased melting of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in conjunction with weak winter insolation played a major role in the development of winter precipitation maxima in the Mediterranean region in controlling the strength and position of the North Atlantic storm track. Finally, our data provide evidence for centennial-scale vegetation and climatic changes in the southern Central Mediterranean. During the wet early Holocene, alkenone-derived cooling episodes are synchronous with herbaceous composition changes that indicate muted changes in precipitation. In contrast, enhanced aridity episodes, as detected by strong reduction in trees and shrubs, are recorded during the mid-to late Holocene. We show that the impact of the Holocene cooling events on the Mediterranean hydroclimate depend on baseline climate states, i.e. insolation and ice sheet extent, shaping the response of the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation. PY 2013 SO Climate Of The Past SN 1814-9324 PU Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh VL 9 IS 2 UT 000317009700017 BP 767 EP 787 DI 10.5194/cp-9-767-2013 ID 29241 ER EF