Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in NE Asia

Ulrike Herzschuh; H. John B. Birks; Thomas Laepple; Andrei Andreev; Martin Melles; Julie Brigham-Grette

doi:10.1038/ncomms11967

Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in NE Asia

Ulrike Herzschuh,
H. John B. Birks,
Thomas Laepple,
Andrei Andreev,
Martin Melles,
Julie Brigham-Grette

Affiliations

Ulrike Herzschuh: Periglacial Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
H. John B. Birks: Department of Biology, University of Bergen
Thomas Laepple: Periglacial Research Section, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
Andrei Andreev: Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne
Martin Melles: Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne
Julie Brigham-Grette: Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11967
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Climate is broadly assumed to control vegetation, with vegetation lags thought to last no more than a few centuries. Here, based on the analysis of Lake El’gygytgyn pollen record, the authors show that vegetation-climate disequilibrium persisted for several millennia during the Plio-Pleistocene transition.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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