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A palaeoclimate proxy database for water security planning in Queensland Australia. Sci Data 2021; 8:292. [PMID: 34728623 PMCID: PMC8564541 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-01074-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Palaeoclimate data relating to hydroclimate variability over the past millennia have a vital contribution to make to the water sector globally. The water industry faces considerable challenges accessing climate data sets that extend beyond that of historical gauging stations. Without this, variability around the extremes of floods and droughts is unknown and stress-testing infrastructure design and water demands is challenging. User-friendly access to relevant palaeoclimate data is now essential, and importantly, an efficient process to determine which proxies are most relevant to a planning scenario, and geographic area of interest. This paper presents PalaeoWISE (Palaeoclimate Data for Water Industry and Security Planning) a fully integrated, and quality-assured database of proxy data extracted from data repositories and publications collated in Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format. We demonstrate the application of the database in Queensland, one of Australia’s most hydrologically extreme states. The database and resultant hydroclimate correlations provides both the scientific community, and water resource managers, with a valuable resource to better manage for future climate changes. Measurement(s) | climate | Technology Type(s) | digital curation | Factor Type(s) | proxy type • geographic location • temporal interval • environmental material | Sample Characteristic - Environment | climate system | Sample Characteristic - Location | Earth (planet) |
Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.16607162
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Mahadevaiah C, Hapase P, Sreenivasa V, Hapase R, Swamy HKM, Anilkumar C, Mohanraj K, Hemaprabha G, Ram B. Delineation of genotype × environment interaction for identification of stable genotypes for tillering phase drought stress tolerance in sugarcane. Sci Rep 2021; 11:18649. [PMID: 34545116 PMCID: PMC8452706 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98002-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/02/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Sugarcane is a trans-seasonal long-duration crop and tillering phase (60-150 days) is the most sensitive phase for moisture stress, causing significant reduction in biomass accumulation. The study focussed to assess the Genotype × Environment Interaction (GEI) for tillering phase moisture stress and to identify the stable genotypes in sugarcane. The study dealt with 14 drought tolerant genotypes and two standards (Co 86032 and CoM 0265) which were evaluated in two plant and one ratoon trials at four locations in Maharashtra, India. The moisture stress was imposed for 60 days from 90 to 150 days after planting and corresponded to tillering phase by withholding the irrigation. The AMMI ANOVA showed significant GEI for cane and CCS yield accounting 18.33 and 19.45 percent of variability respectively. Drought and genotype main effects were highly significant accounting 49.08 and 32.59 percent variability for cane yield and, 52.45 and 28.10 percent variability for CCS yield respectively. The first two interactive principal component (IPCA) biplots of AMMI showed diverse nature of all four environments and the Discriminative vs Mean biplots of Genotype + genotype × environment interaction (GGE) model showed that 'Pune' as the highly discriminating environment. The genotype ranking biplots of GGE showed that Co 85019 was the most stable genotype followed by Co 98017. Similar results were also observed in Yield vs IPCA1 biplot of AMMI, which revealed Co 85019 and Co 98017 as high yielding stable varieties. Yield related environmental maximum (YREM) showed thirteen and nine percent loss due to crossover interactions in Co 85019 for cane yield and CCS yield respectively. The multi-environment BLUP and genotype stability index (GSI) has reaffirmed that Co 85019 as a drought proof and stable genotype with high yield under tillering phase drought stress. The results suggested using Co 85019 for cultivation in drought prone regions and the usefulness of the methodology for identifying more such sugarcane varieties for the benefit of resource poor famers in drought affected regions.
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- C. Mahadevaiah
- grid.459991.90000 0004 0505 3259Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- grid.32056.320000 0001 2190 9326Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune, India
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- grid.459991.90000 0004 0505 3259Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- grid.32056.320000 0001 2190 9326Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune, India
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- grid.459991.90000 0004 0505 3259Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- grid.418371.80000 0001 2183 1039ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, India
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- grid.459991.90000 0004 0505 3259Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- grid.459991.90000 0004 0505 3259Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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- grid.459991.90000 0004 0505 3259Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, India
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O’Donnell AJ, Renton M, Allen KJ, Grierson PF. Tree growth responses to temporal variation in rainfall differ across a continental-scale climatic gradient. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0249959. [PMID: 33945548 PMCID: PMC8096069 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 03/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Globally, many biomes are being impacted by significant shifts in total annual rainfall as well as increasing variability of rainfall within and among years. Such changes can have potentially large impacts on plant productivity and growth, but remain largely unknown, particularly for much of the Southern Hemisphere. We investigate how growth of the widespread conifer, Callitris columellaris varied with inter-annual variation in the amount, intensity and frequency of rainfall events over the last century and between semi-arid (<500 mm mean annual rainfall) and tropical (>800 mm mean annual rainfall) biomes in Australia. We used linear and polynomial regression models to investigate the strength and shape of the relationships between growth (ring width) and rainfall. At semi-arid sites, growth was strongly and linearly related to rainfall amount, regardless of differences in the seasonality and intensity of rainfall. The linear shape of the relationship indicates that predicted future declines in mean rainfall will have proportional negative impacts on long-term tree growth in semi-arid biomes. In contrast, growth in the tropics showed a weak and asymmetrical ('concave-down') response to rainfall amount, where growth was less responsive to changes in rainfall amount at the higher end of the rainfall range (>1250 mm annual rainfall) than at the lower end (<1000 mm annual rainfall). The asymmetric relationship indicates that long-term growth rates of Callitris in the tropics are more sensitive to increased inter-annual variability of rainfall than to changes in the mean amount of rainfall. Our findings are consistent with observations that the responses of vegetation to changes in the mean or variability of rainfall differ between mesic and semi-arid biomes. These results highlight how contrasting growth responses of a widespread species across a hydroclimatic gradient can inform understanding of potential sensitivity of different biomes to climatic variability and change.
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- Alison J. O’Donnell
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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Schneider L, Allen K, Walker M, Morgan C, Haberle S. Using Tree Rings to Track Atmospheric Mercury Pollution in Australia: The Legacy of Mining in Tasmania. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2019; 53:5697-5706. [PMID: 30871315 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Historical records of mercury (Hg) deposition in lake sediments have commonly been used to monitor historic atmospheric concentrations. In the Australian environment, however, freshwater lakes are limited, restricting the region for which depositional archives of Hg can be derived. In this study we show that dendrochemistry can provide a record of atmospheric concentrations at very high resolution. We measured Hg concentrations in growth rings of two tree species from a site in western in Tasmania-Huon Pine ( Lagarostrobus franklinii) and Celery Top Pine ( Phyllocladus aspleniifolius). This region has been heavily mined over the past 150 years. Although much previous work has linked atmospheric Hg to gold mining, the evidence in this study suggests that copper smelters in Queenstown and Zeehan, not gold mining activities, were the main sources of Hg emissions to the atmosphere in this location. Huon Pine had significantly higher background Hg concentrations ( x̅ = 5.62 ng/g) than Celery Top Pine ( x̅ = 2.95 ng/g). No significant increase in Hg concentration during the peak copper smelting phase (1896 to 1935) was observed in Celery Top Pine, while a significant 1.4 fold-increase was observed in Huon Pine. Our results show that of species examined across the globe, Huon Pine is one of the most efficient bioaccumulators of Hg, making it a good proxy for tracking historical Hg emissions in western Tasmania. This ability to measure Hg in the environment is essential if Australia ratifies the Minamata Convention.
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences , University of Melbourne , 500 Yarra Boulevard , Richmond , Victoria 3121 , Australia
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Allen KJ, Brookhouse M, French BJ, Nichols SC, Dahl B, Norrie D, Prior LD, Palmer JG, Bowman DJMS. Two climate-sensitive tree-ring chronologies from Arnhem Land, monsoonal Australia. AUSTRAL ECOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kathryn J. Allen
- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences; University of Melbourne; 500 Yarra Boulevard Richmond Victoria 3121 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
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- School of Biology; Australian National University; Acton Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences; University of Tasmania; Sandy Bay Tasmania Australia
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences; University of Melbourne; 500 Yarra Boulevard Richmond Victoria 3121 Australia
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- School of Biology; Australian National University; Acton Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- School of Biology; Australian National University; Acton Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences; University of Tasmania; Sandy Bay Tasmania Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence in Australian Biodiversity and Heritage; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia
- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales Australia
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Gallego D, García-Herrera R, Peña-Ortiz C, Ribera P. The steady enhancement of the Australian Summer Monsoon in the last 200 years. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16166. [PMID: 29170490 PMCID: PMC5700976 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16414-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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A new bicentennial series of the Australian monsoon strength based on historical wind observations has allowed for the assessment of the variability of this system since the early 19th century. Our series covers a period in which the scarcity of meteorological observations in the area had precluded the evaluation of long-term climatic trends. Results indicate that the increase in precipitation over Northern Australia reported for the last 60 years is just a manifestation of a much longer lasting trend related to the strengthening of the Australian monsoon that has been occurring since at least 1816.
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- Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.,Instituto de Geociencias UCM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Bliege Bird R, Bird DW, Codding BF. People, El Niño southern oscillation and fire in Australia: fire regimes and climate controls in hummock grasslands. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0343. [PMID: 27216513 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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While evidence mounts that indigenous burning has a significant role in shaping pyrodiversity, the processes explaining its variation across local and external biophysical systems remain limited. This is especially the case with studies of climate-fire interactions, which only recognize an effect of humans on the fire regime when they act independently of climate. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that an anthropogenic fire regime (fire incidence, size and extent) does not covary with climate. In the lightning regime, positive El Niño southern oscillation (ENSO) values increase lightning fire incidence, whereas La Niña (and associated increases in prior rainfall) increase fire size. ENSO has the opposite effect in the Martu regime, decreasing ignitions in El Niño conditions without affecting fire size. Anthropogenic ignition rates covary positively with high antecedent rainfall, whereas fire size varies only with high temperatures and unpredictable winds, which may reduce control over fire spread. However, total area burned is similarly predicted by antecedent rainfall in both regimes, but is driven by increases in fire size in the lightning regime, and fire number in the anthropogenic regime. We conclude that anthropogenic regimes covary with climatic variation, but detecting the human-climate-fire interaction requires multiple measures of both fire regime and climate.This article is part of the themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.
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- Rebecca Bliege Bird
- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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Roos CI, Scott AC, Belcher CM, Chaloner WG, Aylen J, Bird RB, Coughlan MR, Johnson BR, Johnston FH, McMorrow J, Steelman T. Living on a flammable planet: interdisciplinary, cross-scalar and varied cultural lessons, prospects and challenges. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0469. [PMID: 27216517 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Living with fire is a challenge for human communities because they are influenced by socio-economic, political, ecological and climatic processes at various spatial and temporal scales. Over the course of 2 days, the authors discussed how communities could live with fire challenges at local, national and transnational scales. Exploiting our diverse, international and interdisciplinary expertise, we outline generalizable properties of fire-adaptive communities in varied settings where cultural knowledge of fire is rich and diverse. At the national scale, we discussed policy and management challenges for countries that have diminishing fire knowledge, but for whom global climate change will bring new fire problems. Finally, we assessed major fire challenges that transcend national political boundaries, including the health burden of smoke plumes and the climate consequences of wildfires. It is clear that to best address the broad range of fire problems, a holistic wildfire scholarship must develop common agreement in working terms and build across disciplines. We must also communicate our understanding of fire and its importance to the media, politicians and the general public.This article is part of the themed issue 'The interaction of fire and mankind'.
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- Christopher I Roos
- Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
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- wildFIRE Lab, Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PS, UK
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK
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- Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
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- Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97401, USA
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- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia
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- School of Environment, Education, and Development, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
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- School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 5C8
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Tibby J, Barr C, McInerney FA, Henderson ACG, Leng MJ, Greenway M, Marshall JC, McGregor GB, Tyler JJ, McNeil V. Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the broad-leaved paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2016; 22:3474-3486. [PMID: 27090595 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2015] [Accepted: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Quantitative reconstructions of terrestrial climate are highly sought after but rare, particularly in Australia. Carbon isotope discrimination in plant leaves (Δleaf ) is an established indicator of past hydroclimate because the fractionation of carbon isotopes during photosynthesis is strongly influenced by water stress. Leaves of the evergreen tree Melaleuca quinquenervia have been recovered from the sediments of some perched lakes on North Stradbroke and Fraser Islands, south-east Queensland, eastern Australia. Here, we examine the potential for using M. quinquenervia ∆leaf as a tracer of past rainfall by analysing carbon isotope ratios (δ(13) C) of modern leaves. We firstly assess Δleaf variation at the leaf and stand scale and find no systematic pattern within leaves or between leaves due to their position on the tree. We then examine the relationships between climate and Δleaf for a 11-year time series of leaves collected in a litter tray. M. quinquenervia retains its leaves for 1-4 years; thus, cumulative average climate data are used. There is a significant relationship between annual mean ∆leaf and mean annual rainfall of the hydrological year for 1-4 years (i.e. 365-1460 days) prior to leaf fall (r(2) = 0.64, P = 0.003, n = 11). This relationship is marginally improved by accounting for the effect of pCO2 on discrimination (r(2) = 0.67, P = 0.002, n = 11). The correlation between rainfall and Δleaf , and the natural distribution of Melaleuca quinquenervia around wetlands of eastern Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia offers significant potential to infer past rainfall on a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
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- John Tibby
- Geography, Environment and Population, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Sprigg Geobiology Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Geography, Environment and Population, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Sprigg Geobiology Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Sprigg Geobiology Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Geography, Politics & Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities, British Geological Survey, Keyworth Nottingham, NG12 5GG, UK
- Centre for Environmental Geochemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Griffith School of Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Sprigg Geobiology Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Science, Information Technology and Innovation, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Ong JJL, Rountrey AN, Zinke J, Meeuwig JJ, Grierson PF, O'Donnell AJ, Newman SJ, Lough JM, Trougan M, Meekan MG. Evidence for climate-driven synchrony of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in northwest Australia. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2016; 22:2776-2786. [PMID: 26970074 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2016] [Revised: 01/23/2016] [Accepted: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The effects of climate change are difficult to predict for many marine species because little is known of their response to climate variations in the past. However, long-term chronologies of growth, a variable that integrates multiple physical and biological factors, are now available for several marine taxa. These allow us to search for climate-driven synchrony in growth across multiple taxa and ecosystems, identifying the key processes driving biological responses at very large spatial scales. We hypothesized that in northwest (NW) Australia, a region that is predicted to be strongly influenced by climate change, the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon would be an important factor influencing the growth patterns of organisms in both marine and terrestrial environments. To test this idea, we analyzed existing growth chronologies of the marine fish Lutjanus argentimaculatus, the coral Porites spp. and the tree Callitris columellaris and developed a new chronology for another marine fish, Lethrinus nebulosus. Principal components analysis and linear model selection showed evidence of ENSO-driven synchrony in growth among all four taxa at interannual time scales, the first such result for the Southern Hemisphere. Rainfall, sea surface temperatures, and sea surface salinities, which are linked to the ENSO system, influenced the annual growth of fishes, trees, and corals. All four taxa had negative relationships with the Niño-4 index (a measure of ENSO status), with positive growth patterns occurring during strong La Niña years. This finding implies that future changes in the strength and frequency of ENSO events are likely to have major consequences for both marine and terrestrial taxa. Strong similarities in the growth patterns of fish and trees offer the possibility of using tree-ring chronologies, which span longer time periods than those of fish, to aid understanding of both historical and future responses of fish populations to climate variation.
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- Joyce J L Ong
- Center for Marine Futures, School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia Oceans Institute (M096), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
- Australian Institute of Marine Science, UWA Oceans Institute (M096), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1079, USA
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia
- Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3 Townsville MC, Townsville, Qld, 4810, Australia
- School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Avenue, Braamfontein, 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Center for Marine Futures, School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia Oceans Institute (M096), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Ecosystems Research Group, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia (M090), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Ecosystems Research Group, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia (M090), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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- Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, P.O. Box 20, North Beach, WA, 6920, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3 Townsville MC, Townsville, Qld, 4810, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, UWA Oceans Institute (M096), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia
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