Climate of the Past (Jan 2016)
Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr
- B. A. A. Hoogakker,
- R. S. Smith,
- J. S. Singarayer,
- R. Marchant,
- I. C. Prentice,
- J. R. M. Allen,
- R. S. Anderson,
- S. A. Bhagwat,
- H. Behling,
- O. Borisova,
- M. Bush,
- A. Correa-Metrio,
- A. de Vernal,
- J. M. Finch,
- B. Fréchette,
- S. Lozano-Garcia,
- W. D. Gosling,
- W. Granoszewski,
- E. C. Grimm,
- E. Grüger,
- J. Hanselman,
- S. P. Harrison,
- T. R. Hill,
- B. Huntley,
- G. Jiménez-Moreno,
- P. Kershaw,
- M.-P. Ledru,
- D. Magri,
- M. McKenzie,
- U. Müller,
- T. Nakagawa,
- E. Novenko,
- D. Penny,
- L. Sadori,
- L. Scott,
- J. Stevenson,
- P. J. Valdes,
- M. Vandergoes,
- A. Velichko,
- C. Whitlock,
- C. Tzedakis
Affiliations
- B. A. A. Hoogakker
- Department of Earth Science, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
- R. S. Smith
- NCAS-Climate and Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
- J. S. Singarayer
- Department of Meteorology and Centre for Past Climate Change, University of Reading, Reading, UK
- R. Marchant
- Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
- I. C. Prentice
- AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK
- J. R. M. Allen
- Durham University, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
- R. S. Anderson
- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Box 5964 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011, USA
- S. A. Bhagwat
- The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
- H. Behling
- Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
- O. Borisova
- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny Lane 19, 119017 Moscow, Russia
- M. Bush
- Florida Institute of Technology, Biological Sciences, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
- A. Correa-Metrio
- Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, DF, Coyoacan, Mexico
- A. de Vernal
- GEOTOP, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
- J. M. Finch
- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209, South Africa
- B. Fréchette
- GEOTOP, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
- S. Lozano-Garcia
- Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cd. Universitaria, 04510, DF, Coyoacan, Mexico
- W. D. Gosling
- Palaeoecology & Landscape Ecology, IBED, Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- W. Granoszewski
- Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, Carpathian Branch, Skrzatów 1, 31-560 Kraków, Poland
- E. C. Grimm
- Illinois State Museum, Research and Collections Center, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, IL 62703, USA
- E. Grüger
- Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
- J. Hanselman
- Westfield State University, Department of Biology, Westfield, MA 01086, USA
- S. P. Harrison
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
- T. R. Hill
- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209, South Africa
- B. Huntley
- Durham University, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
- G. Jiménez-Moreno
- Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Avda. Fuente Nueva S/N, 18002 Granada, Spain
- P. Kershaw
- School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
- M.-P. Ledru
- IRD UMR 226 Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier (ISEM) (UM2 CNRS IRD) Place Eugène Bataillon cc 061, 34095 Montpellier CEDEX, France
- D. Magri
- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Environmental Biology, 00185 Rome, Italy
- M. McKenzie
- Monash University, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
- U. Müller
- Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
- T. Nakagawa
- Ritsumeikan University, Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology, Shiga 525-8577, Japan
- E. Novenko
- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny Lane 19, 119017 Moscow, Russia
- D. Penny
- School of Geosciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
- L. Sadori
- Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Environmental Biology, 00185 Rome, Italy
- L. Scott
- University of the Free State, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Plant Sciences, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
- J. Stevenson
- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
- P. J. Valdes
- BRIDGE, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK
- M. Vandergoes
- University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME 04469-5790, USA
- A. Velichko
- Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny Lane 19, 119017 Moscow, Russia
- C. Whitlock
- Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT 59717-3480, USA
- C. Tzedakis
- UCL Department of Geography, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-51-2016
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 51 – 73
Abstract
A new global synthesis and biomization of long (> 40 kyr) pollen-data records is presented and used with simulations from the HadCM3 and FAMOUS climate models and the BIOME4 vegetation model to analyse the dynamics of the global terrestrial biosphere and carbon storage over the last glacial–interglacial cycle. Simulated biome distributions using BIOME4 driven by HadCM3 and FAMOUS at the global scale over time generally agree well with those inferred from pollen data. Global average areas of grassland and dry shrubland, desert, and tundra biomes show large-scale increases during the Last Glacial Maximum, between ca. 64 and 74 ka BP and cool substages of Marine Isotope Stage 5, at the expense of the tropical forest, warm-temperate forest, and temperate forest biomes. These changes are reflected in BIOME4 simulations of global net primary productivity, showing good agreement between the two models. Such changes are likely to affect terrestrial carbon storage, which in turn influences the stable carbon isotopic composition of seawater as terrestrial carbon is depleted in 13C.
