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Reinhardt AL, Kasper T, Lochner M, Bliedtner M, Krahn KJ, Haberzettl T, Shumilovskikh L, Rahobisoa JJ, Zech R, Favier C, Behling H, Bremond L, Daut G, Montade V. Rain Forest Fragmentation and Environmental Dynamics on Nosy Be Island (NW Madagascar) at 1300 cal BP Is Attributable to Intensified Human Impact. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.783770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Madagascar houses one of the Earth’s biologically richest, but also one of most endangered, terrestrial ecoregions. Although it is obvious that humans substantially altered the natural ecosystems during the past decades, the timing of arrival of early inhabitants on Madagascar as well as their environmental impact is still intensively debated. This research aims to study the beginning of early human impact on Malagasy natural ecosystems, specifically on Nosy Be island (NW Madagascar) by targeting the sedimentary archive of Lake Amparihibe, an ancient volcanic crater. Based on pollen, fungal spore, other non-pollen palynomorph, charcoal particle and diatom analyses combined with high-resolution sediment-physical and (in)organic geochemical data, paleoenvironmental dynamics during the past three millennia were reconstructed. Results indicate a major environmental change at ca. 1300 cal BP characterized by an abrupt development of grass (C4) dominated and fire disturbed landscape showing the alteration of natural rain forest. Further, increased soil erodibility is suggested by distinct increase in sediment accumulation rates, a strong pulse of nutrient input, higher water turbidity and contemporaneous increase in spores of mycorrhizal fungi. These parameters are interpreted to show a strong early anthropogenic transformation of the landscape from rain forest to open grassland. After ca. 1000 cal BP, fires remain frequent and vegetation is dominated by forest/grassland mosaic. While natural vegetation should be dominated by rain forest on Nosy Be, these last results indicate that human continuously impacted the landscapes surrounding the lake. At a local scale, our data support the “subsistence shift hypothesis” which proposed that population expansion with development of herding/farming altered the natural ecosystems. However, a precise regional synthesis is challenging, since high-resolution multi-proxy records from continuous sedimentary archives as well as records located further north and in the hinterland are still scarce in Madagascar. The lack of such regional synthesis also prevents precise comparison between different regions in Madagascar to detect potential (dis)similarities in climate dynamics, ecosystem responses and anthropogenic influences at the island’s scale during the (late) Holocene.
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Teixeira H, Montade V, Salmona J, Metzger J, Bremond L, Kasper T, Daut G, Rouland S, Ranarilalatiana S, Rakotondravony R, Chikhi L, Behling H, Radespiel U. Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar. Commun Biol 2021; 4:1084. [PMID: 34526636 PMCID: PMC8443640 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02620-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 08/31/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Quaternary climatic changes have been invoked as important drivers of species diversification worldwide. However, the impact of such changes on vegetation and animal population dynamics in tropical regions remains debated. To overcome this uncertainty, we integrated high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstructions from a sedimentary record covering the past 25,000 years with demographic inferences of a forest-dwelling primate species (Microcebus arnholdi), in northern Madagascar. Result comparisons suggest that climate changes through the African Humid Period (15.2 - 5.5 kyr) strongly affected the demographic dynamics of M. arnholdi. We further inferred a population decline in the last millennium which was likely shaped by the combination of climatic and anthropogenic impacts. Our findings demonstrate that population fluctuations in Malagasy wildlife were substantial prior to a significant human impact. This provides a critical knowledge of climatically driven, environmental and ecological changes in the past, which is essential to better understand the dynamics and resilience of current biodiversity.
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- Helena Teixeira
- grid.412970.90000 0001 0126 6191Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Bünteweg 17, 30559 Hannover, Germany
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- grid.7450.60000 0001 2364 4210University of Goettingen, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Goettingen, Germany ,grid.462058.d0000 0001 2188 7059ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, France
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- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCNRS-UPS-IRD, UMR5174, Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- grid.412970.90000 0001 0126 6191Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Bünteweg 17p, 30559 Hannover, Germany ,grid.419538.20000 0000 9071 0620Veterinary Functional Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestrasse 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- grid.462058.d0000 0001 2188 7059ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, France
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- grid.9613.d0000 0001 1939 2794Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Department of Physical Geography, Loebdergraben 32, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- grid.9613.d0000 0001 1939 2794Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Department of Physical Geography, Loebdergraben 32, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- grid.462058.d0000 0001 2188 7059ISEM, Université Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Place Eugène Bataillon, Montpellier, France
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- grid.440419.c0000 0001 2165 5629Université d’Antananarivo, Faculté des Sciences, Mention Biologie et Ecologie Végétale, Laboratoire de Palynologie Appliquée, B.P 905 - 101, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Ecole Doctorale Ecosystèmes Naturels (EDEN), University of Mahajanga, 5 Rue Georges V - Immeuble KAKAL, Mahajanga Be, B.P. 652, Mahajanga, 401 Madagascar ,Faculté des Sciences, de Technologies et de l’Environnement, University of Mahajanga, 5 Rue Georges V - Immeuble KAKAL, Mahajanga Be, B.P. 652, Mahajanga, 401 Madagascar
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- grid.418346.c0000 0001 2191 3202Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Rua da Quinta Grande, 6, P-2780-156 Oeiras, Portugal ,grid.4399.70000000122879528Laboratoire Évolution & Diversité Biologique (EDB UMR 5174), Université de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, CNRS, IRD, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, Bât. 4R1, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France
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- grid.7450.60000 0001 2364 4210University of Goettingen, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Goettingen, Germany
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- grid.412970.90000 0001 0126 6191Institute of Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Bünteweg 17, 30559 Hannover, Germany
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Mietton M, Gunnell Y, Andriamitia J, Crouzet C, Montade V, Jouannic G, Nicoud G, Razafimahefa R. Neotectonics and pastoralism: How they impact flood regimes in Madagascar's highlands. Sci Total Environ 2020; 742:140633. [PMID: 32721744 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 06/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Sustainably maintaining the densely populated upland plains of Madagascar as operationally safe spaces for the food security of the nation and the urban growth of its capital city, Antananarivo, hinges critically on avoiding crop and infrastructure destruction by their through-flowing rivers. The flood regime, however, is also a function of two 'slow' variables hitherto undocumented: tectonic subsidence regime, and floodplain sedimentation rate. From a radiocarbon-dated chronostratigraphy and environmental history of the sediment sequences in three of Madagascar's semi-enclosed upland basins (Antananarivo, Ambohibary, and Alaotra), we quantify and compare how the precarious equilibrium between the two variables entails differentials in accommodation space for sediment and floodwater. Results show that all these plains have been wetlands for at least 40,000 years, but that the Antananarivo Basin is the most vulnerable because the imbalance between sedimentation and subsidence is the largest. Although the tectonic regime and the endemic forms of gully erosion that occur in the catchments are beyond human control, we advocate that flood mitigation strategies should focus on the natural grassland savanna, which makes up most of the contributing areas to surface runoff in the watersheds. Pastoralists are persistently left out of rural development programmes, yet the rangelands could benefit from the introduction of multi-purpose grasses and legumes known to withstand high stocking rates on poor soils while combining the benefits of nutritiousness, fire and drought resistance, with good runoff-arrest and topsoil-retainment abilities. Future-proofing Madagascar's upland grainbaskets and population centres thus calls for joined-up action on the sediment cascade, focusing on soil and water sequestration through integrated watershed management rather than on hard-defence engineering against overflowing rivers on the plains, which has been the costly but ineffectual approach since the 17th century.
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- Michel Mietton
- Department of Geography, Université de Lyon, CNRS UMR Environnement Ville Société, 18, rue Chevreul, F-69362 Lyon, France
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- Department of Geography, Université Lumière Lyon 2, CNRS UMR Environnement Ville Société, 5, Avenue P. Mendès-France, F-69696 Bron, France.
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- Department of Geography, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Department of Geology, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, ISTerre, Chambéry, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, CNRS UMR 6249, 16 route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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- Department of Geology, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, ISTerre, Chambéry, France
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- Department of Geography, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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Kaufman D, McKay N, Routson C, Erb M, Davis B, Heiri O, Jaccard S, Tierney J, Dätwyler C, Axford Y, Brussel T, Cartapanis O, Chase B, Dawson A, de Vernal A, Engels S, Jonkers L, Marsicek J, Moffa-Sánchez P, Morrill C, Orsi A, Rehfeld K, Saunders K, Sommer PS, Thomas E, Tonello M, Tóth M, Vachula R, Andreev A, Bertrand S, Biskaborn B, Bringué M, Brooks S, Caniupán M, Chevalier M, Cwynar L, Emile-Geay J, Fegyveresi J, Feurdean A, Finsinger W, Fortin MC, Foster L, Fox M, Gajewski K, Grosjean M, Hausmann S, Heinrichs M, Holmes N, Ilyashuk B, Ilyashuk E, Juggins S, Khider D, Koinig K, Langdon P, Larocque-Tobler I, Li J, Lotter A, Luoto T, Mackay A, Magyari E, Malevich S, Mark B, Massaferro J, Montade V, Nazarova L, Novenko E, Pařil P, Pearson E, Peros M, Pienitz R, Płóciennik M, Porinchu D, Potito A, Rees A, Reinemann S, Roberts S, Rolland N, Salonen S, Self A, Seppä H, Shala S, St-Jacques JM, Stenni B, Syrykh L, Tarrats P, Taylor K, van den Bos V, Velle G, Wahl E, Walker I, Wilmshurst J, Zhang E, Zhilich S. Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records. Sci Data 2020; 7:246. [PMID: 32678108 PMCID: PMC7366677 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-00584-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Darrell Kaufman
- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA.
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Basel, 4056, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
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- University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
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- Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, 34095, France
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- Mount Royal University, Department of General Education, Calgary, T3E6K6, Canada
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- Université du Québec à Montréal, Geotop-UQAM, Montréal, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- University of London, Birkbeck, Department of Geography, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- University of Bremen, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, 91191, France
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- Heidelberg University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, 69221, Germany
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Environment, Lucas Heights, 2234, Australia
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- University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland.,Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Geesthacht, Germany
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- University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, 14206, USA
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- Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Mar del Plata, 7600, Argentina
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- Balaton Limnological Institute, Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, H-8237, Hungary
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- Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, 2912, USA
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- Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
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- Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, AB, T2L 2A7, Canada
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- Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- University of Concepcion, Department of Oceanography and COPAS Sur-Austral Program, Concepcion, 4030000, Chile
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- University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- University of New Brunswick, Department of Biology, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada
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- University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- Goethe University, Department of Physical Geography, Frankfurt am Main, 60438, Germany
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- Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, 34095, France
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- University of Ottawa, Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, Ottawa, K1N6N5, Canada
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- Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE17RU, UK.,British Antarctic Survey, Palaeoenvironments and Ice Sheets, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
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- University of Arizona, School of Anthropology, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- University of Ottawa, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Ottawa, K1N6N5, Canada
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
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- Okanagan College, Department of Geography and Earth and Environmental Science, Kelowna, V1Y 4X8, Canada
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- Sheffield Hallam University, Department of the Natural and Built Environment, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE17RU, UK
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- University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA, 90292, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- University of Southampton, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Northwest University, China, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Xi'an, 710027, China
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- University of Bern, Palaeoecology, Bern, CH-3013, Switzerland
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- University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lahti, 15140, Finland
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- University College London, Department of Geography, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
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- University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Geography and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, 34095, France
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- Potsdam University, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, 14476, Germany
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Masaryk University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE17RU, UK
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- Bishop's University, Department of Environment and Geography, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1M 1Z7, Canada
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- Université Laval, Department of Geography, Center for Northern Studies, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- University of Lodz, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Lodz, 90-237, Poland
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- University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, GA, 30606, USA
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- National University of Ireland Galway, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland
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- Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand
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- Sinclair Community College, Geography Department, Dayton, OH, 45402, USA
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- British Antarctic Survey, Palaeoenvironments and Ice Sheets, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
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- Fisheries and Ocean Canada, Gulf Fisheries Centre, Moncton, NB, E1C 9B6, Canada
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden
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- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venezia, 30172, Italy
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- Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Research Laboratory of the Environmental management, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia
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- Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Secció Ecologia, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
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- National University of Ireland Galway, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland.,University College Cork, Department of Geography, Cork, Ireland
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- Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand
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- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, LFI, Bergen, 5008, Norway
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- US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Biology; Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 1V7, Canada
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- Landcare Research, Ecosystems and Conservation, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Nanjing, 210008, China
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Kaufman D, McKay N, Routson C, Erb M, Davis B, Heiri O, Jaccard S, Tierney J, Dätwyler C, Axford Y, Brussel T, Cartapanis O, Chase B, Dawson A, de Vernal A, Engels S, Jonkers L, Marsicek J, Moffa-Sánchez P, Morrill C, Orsi A, Rehfeld K, Saunders K, Sommer PS, Thomas E, Tonello M, Tóth M, Vachula R, Andreev A, Bertrand S, Biskaborn B, Bringué M, Brooks S, Caniupán M, Chevalier M, Cwynar L, Emile-Geay J, Fegyveresi J, Feurdean A, Finsinger W, Fortin MC, Foster L, Fox M, Gajewski K, Grosjean M, Hausmann S, Heinrichs M, Holmes N, Ilyashuk B, Ilyashuk E, Juggins S, Khider D, Koinig K, Langdon P, Larocque-Tobler I, Li J, Lotter A, Luoto T, Mackay A, Magyari E, Malevich S, Mark B, Massaferro J, Montade V, Nazarova L, Novenko E, Pařil P, Pearson E, Peros M, Pienitz R, Płóciennik M, Porinchu D, Potito A, Rees A, Reinemann S, Roberts S, Rolland N, Salonen S, Self A, Seppä H, Shala S, St-Jacques JM, Stenni B, Syrykh L, Tarrats P, Taylor K, van den Bos V, Velle G, Wahl E, Walker I, Wilmshurst J, Zhang E, Zhilich S. A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records. Sci Data 2020; 7:115. [PMID: 32286335 PMCID: PMC7156486 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-020-0445-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2019] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of quality-controlled, published, temperature-sensitive proxy records extending back 12,000 years through the Holocene. Data were compiled from 679 sites where time series cover at least 4000 years, are resolved at sub-millennial scale (median spacing of 400 years or finer) and have at least one age control point every 3000 years, with cut-off values slackened in data-sparse regions. The data derive from lake sediment (51%), marine sediment (31%), peat (11%), glacier ice (3%), and other natural archives. The database contains 1319 records, including 157 from the Southern Hemisphere. The multi-proxy database comprises paleotemperature time series based on ecological assemblages, as well as biophysical and geochemical indicators that reflect mean annual or seasonal temperatures, as encoded in the database. This database can be used to reconstruct the spatiotemporal evolution of Holocene temperature at global to regional scales, and is publicly available in Linked Paleo Data (LiPD) format.
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- Darrell Kaufman
- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA.
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Basel, 4056, Switzerland
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
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- University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
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- Northwestern University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- University of Utah, Department of Geography, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
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- Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, 34095, France
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- Mount Royal University, Department of General Education, Calgary, T3E6K6, Canada
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- Université du Québec à Montréal, Geotop-UQAM, Montréal, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- University of London, Birkbeck, Department of Geography, London, WC1E 7HX, UK
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- University of Bremen, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, 28359, Germany
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geoscience, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, 91191, France
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- Heidelberg University, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, 69221, Germany
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- Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Environment, Lucas Heights, 2234, Australia
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- University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
- Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Geesthacht, Germany
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- University at Buffalo, Department of Geology, Buffalo, NY, 14206, USA
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- Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Mar del Plata, 7600, Argentina
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- Balaton Limnological Institute, Centre for Ecological Research, Tihany, H-8237, Hungary
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- Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, 2912, USA
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- Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
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- Alfred Wegener Institut Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Potsdam, 14473, Germany
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- Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, AB, T2L 2A7, Canada
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- Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- University of Concepcion, Department of Oceanography and COPAS Sur-Austral Program, Concepcion, 4030000, Chile
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- University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
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- University of New Brunswick, Department of Biology, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada
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- University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA
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- Northern Arizona University, School of Earth and Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011, USA
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- Goethe University, Department of Physical Geography, Frankfurt am Main, 60438, Germany
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- Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, 34095, France
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- University of Ottawa, Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology, Ottawa, K1N6N5, Canada
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- Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE17RU, UK
- British Antarctic Survey, Palaeoenvironments and Ice Sheets, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
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- University of Arizona, School of Anthropology, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- University of Ottawa, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Ottawa, K1N6N5, Canada
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- University of Bern, Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
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- Okanagan College, Department of Geography and Earth and Environmental Science, Kelowna, V1Y 4X8, Canada
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- Sheffield Hallam University, Department of the Natural and Built Environment, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE17RU, UK
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- University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA, 90292, USA
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- University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
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- University of Southampton, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
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- Northwest University, China, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Xi'an, 710027, China
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- University of Bern, Palaeoecology, Bern, CH-3013, Switzerland
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- University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Lahti, 15140, Finland
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- University College London, Department of Geography, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, Budapest, 1117, Hungary
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- University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- The Ohio State University, Department of Geography and Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Université de Montpellier, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, 34095, France
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- Potsdam University, Institute of Geosciences, Potsdam, 14476, Germany
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- Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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- Masaryk University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Brno, 61137, Czech Republic
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- Newcastle University, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE17RU, UK
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- Bishop's University, Department of Environment and Geography, Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1M 1Z7, Canada
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- Université Laval, Department of Geography, Center for Northern Studies, Québec, G1V 0A6, Canada
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- University of Lodz, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Lodz, 90-237, Poland
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- University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, GA, 30606, USA
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- National University of Ireland Galway, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland
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- Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand
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- Sinclair Community College, Geography Department, Dayton, OH, 45402, USA
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- British Antarctic Survey, Palaeoenvironments and Ice Sheets, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK
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- Fisheries and Ocean Canada, Gulf Fisheries Centre, Moncton, NB, E1C 9B6, Canada
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, SE-106 91, Sweden
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- Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Venezia, 30172, Italy
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- Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Research Laboratory of the Environmental management, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia
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- Universitat de Barcelona, Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals, Secció Ecologia, Barcelona, 08028, Spain
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- National University of Ireland Galway, School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies, Galway, H91 TK33, Ireland
- University College Cork, Department of Geography, Cork, Ireland
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- Victoria University of Wellington, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Wellington, 6012, New Zealand
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- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, LFI, Bergen, 5008, Norway
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- US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, CO, 80305, USA
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Biology; Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 1V7, Canada
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- Landcare Research, Ecosystems and Conservation, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Nanjing, 210008, China
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- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Zemp DC, Schleussner CF, Barbosa HMJ, Hirota M, Montade V, Sampaio G, Staal A, Wang-Erlandsson L, Rammig A. Self-amplified Amazon forest loss due to vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14681. [PMID: 28287104 PMCID: PMC5355804 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, while in return forest loss might intensify regional droughts. The consequences of this vegetation–atmosphere feedback for the stability of the Amazon forest are still unclear. Here we show that the risk of self-amplified Amazon forest loss increases nonlinearly with dry-season intensification. We apply a novel complex-network approach, in which Amazon forest patches are linked by observation-based atmospheric water fluxes. Our results suggest that the risk of self-amplified forest loss is reduced with increasing heterogeneity in the response of forest patches to reduced rainfall. Under dry-season Amazonian rainfall reductions, comparable to Last Glacial Maximum conditions, additional forest loss due to self-amplified effects occurs in 10–13% of the Amazon basin. Although our findings do not indicate that the projected rainfall changes for the end of the twenty-first century will lead to complete Amazon dieback, they suggest that frequent extreme drought events have the potential to destabilize large parts of the Amazon forest. Relatively little is understood about seasonal effect of climate change on the Amazon rainforest. Here, the authors show that Amazon forest loss in response to dry-season intensification during the last glacial period was likely self-amplified by regional vegetation-rainfall feedbacks.
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- Delphine Clara Zemp
- Department of Geography, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Rudower Chaussee 16, 12489 Berlin, Germany.,Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany.,Climate Analytics, Ritterstr. 3, 10969 Berlin, Germany
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1371, 05508-090 São Paulo SP, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, 88040-900 Florianópolis SC, Brazil.,Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255 13083-862 Campinas SP, Brazil
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- Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Georg-August-University, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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- Center for Weather Forecasting and Climate Studies (CPTEC), National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Rodovia Pres. Dutra, km 39, 12.630-000 Cachoeira Paulista SP, Brazil
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- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands.,Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket, 10405 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany.,Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Marie‐Pierre Ledru
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier UMR 226 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement UM/CNRS/IRD/EPHE Avenue Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier UM/CNRS/IRD/EPHE Avenue Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex France
- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 4‐14 rue Ferrus 75014 Paris France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier UM/CNRS/IRD/EPHE Avenue Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier UM/CNRS/IRD/EPHE Avenue Eugène Bataillon 34095 Montpellier Cedex France
- Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes 4‐14 rue Ferrus 75014 Paris France
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