Ultra-high resolution pollen record from the northern Andes reveals rapid shifts in montane climates within the last two glacial cycles
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| Date | 2011 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Groot M. H. M.2, Bogota R. G.2, 3, Lourens L. J.1, Hooghiemstra H.2, Vriend M.2, Berrio J. C.4, Tuenter E.1, Van Der Plicht J.5, Van Geel B.2, Ziegler M.1, Weber S. L.1, Betancourt A.2, Contreras L.2, Gaviria S.6, Giraldo C.2, Gonzalez N.2, Jansen J. H. F.7, Konert M.8, Ortega D.2, Rangel O.9, Sarmiento G.6, Vandenberghe J.8, Van Der Hammen T.10, Van Der Linden M.2, Westerhoff W.11 | ||||||||
| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Univ Utrecht, Fac Geosci, Utrecht, Netherlands. 2 : Univ Amsterdam, Inst Biodivers & Ecosyst Dynam, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands. 3 : Univ Distrital, Fac Medio Ambiente & Recursos Nat, Bogota, Colombia. 4 : Univ Leicester, Dept Geog, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England. 5 : Univ Groningen, Ctr Isotope Res, Groningen, Netherlands. 6 : Univ Nacl Colombia, Fac Sci, Dept Geosci, Bogota, Colombia. 7 : Royal Netherlands Inst Sea Res, Texel, Netherlands. 8 : Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Inst Earth Sci, Dept Paleoclimatol & Geomorphol, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands. 9 : Univ Nacl Colombia, Inst Ciencias Nat, Bogota, Colombia. 10 : Fdn Tropenbos, Bogota, Colombia. 11 : Geol Survey Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands. |
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| Source | Climate Of The Past (1814-9324) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2011 , Vol. 7 , N. 1 , P. 299-316 | ||||||||
| DOI | 10.5194/cp-7-299-2011 | ||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 74 | ||||||||
| Abstract | Here we developed a composite pollen-based record of altitudinal vegetation changes from Lake Fuquene (5 degrees N) in Colombia at 2540m elevation. We quantitatively calibrated Arboreal Pollen percentages (AP%) into mean annual temperature (MAT) changes with an unprecedented similar to 60-year resolution over the past 284 000 years. An age model for the AP% record was constructed using frequency analysis in the depth domain and tuning of the distinct obliquity-related variations to the latest marine oxygen isotope stacked record. The reconstructed MAT record largely concurs with the similar to 100 and 41-kyr (obliquity) paced glacial cycles and is superimposed by extreme changes of up to 7 to 10 degrees Celsius within a few hundred years at the major glacial terminations and during marine isotope stage 3, suggesting an unprecedented North Atlantic - equatorial link. Using intermediate complexity transient climate modelling experiments, we demonstrate that ice volume and greenhouse gasses are the major forcing agents causing the orbital-related MAT changes, while direct precession-induced insolation changes had no significant impact on the high mountain vegetation during the last two glacial cycles. | ||||||||
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