FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Temperature change in subtropical southeastern Africa during the past 790,000 yr BT AF Chevalier, Manuel Chase, Brian M. Quick, Lynne J. Dupont, Lydie M. Johnson, Thomas C. AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:4;4:5;5:6; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:; C1 Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution–Montpellier (ISEM), Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), EPHE, IRD, 34095 Montpellier, France Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Lane, Upper Campus, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University, 6031 Port Elizabeth, South Africa MARUM–Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen 28359, Germany Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA C2 UNIV LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE UNIV CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA UNIV NELSON MANDELA, SOUTH AFRICA UNIV BREMEN MARUM, GERMANY UNIV MASSACHUSETTS, USA IF 6.324 TC 13 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00646/75835/76827.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00646/75835/76828.xlsx https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00646/75835/76829.pdf LA English DT Article CR MOZAPHARE-MD104 BO Marion Dufresne AB Across the glacial-interglacial cycles of the late Pleistocene (~700 k.y.), temperature variability at low latitudes is often considered to have been negligible compared to changes in precipitation. However, a paucity of quantified temperature records makes this difficult to reliably assess. In this study, we used the Bayesian method CREST (Climate REconstruction SofTware) to produce a 790,000 yr quantified temperature reconstruction from a marine pollen record from southeast Africa. The results reveal a strong similarity between temperature variability in subtropical Africa and global ice volume and CO2 concentrations, indicating that temperature in the region was not controlled by local insolation, but followed global trends at these time scales, with an amplitude of ~4 °C between glacial minima and interglacial maxima. The data also enabled us to make an assessment of the impact of temperature change on pollen diversity, with results showing there is no link between glacial-age temperatures/CO2 and a loss of diversity in this record. PY 2021 PD JAN SO Geology SN 0091-7613 PU Geological Society of America VL 49 IS 1 UT 000603292000015 BP 71 EP 75 DI 10.1130/G47841.1 ID 75835 ER EF