A last glacial maximum pollen record from bodmin moor showing a possible cryptic Northern refugium in Southwest England

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 296-308

  Kelly, Ann ^a   Charman, Dan J ^a   Newnham, Rewi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conifer trees; Dozmary pool; Glacial tree refugia; Late devensian; Mystery interval; Palynology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEVENSIAN; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUGIUM; STEPPE; SURVIVAL; TUNDRA;

BODMIN MOOR; CORNWALL [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA;

EID: 77449123590     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1309     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Banks WE, d'Errico F, Peterson AT, Kageyama M, Colombeau G. 2008. Reconstructing ecological niches and geographic distributions of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 2568-2575.
2. Bard E, Rostek F, Turon J-L, Gendreau S. 2000. Hydrological impact of Heinrich events in the Subtropical Northeast Atlantic. Science 289: 1321-1324.
3. Barron E, Pollard D. 2002. High-resolution climate simulations of Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 in Europe. Quaternary Research 58: 296-309.
4. Faegri K, Iversen J. 1989. Textbook of Pollen Analysis, (4th edn with K Krzywinski). Wiley: Chichester. marine palynology. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 1037-1054.
5. Bennett KD. 1994. Annotated catalogue of pollen and pteridophyte spore types of the British Isles. Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK.
6. Bennett KD, Provan J. 2008. What do we mean by refugia? Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 2449-2455.
7. Bennett KD, Tzedakis PC, Willis KJ. 1991. Quaternary refugia of north European trees. Journal of Biogeography 18: 103-115.
8. Bhagwat SA, Willis KJ. 2008. Species persistence in northerly glacial refugia of Europe: a matter of chance or biogeographical traits? Journal of Biogeography 35: 464-482.
9. Binney HA, Willis KJ, Edwards ME, Bhagwat SA, Anderson PM, Andreev AA, Blaauw M, Damblon F, Haesaerts P, Kienast F, Kremenetski KV, Krivonogov SK, Lozhkin AV, MacDonald GM, Novenko EY, Oksanen P, Sapelko TV, Valiranta M, Vazhenina L. 2009. The distribution of Late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.016
10. Birks HJB. 1989. Holocene isochrones maps and patterns of treespreading in the British Isles. Journal of Biogeography 16: 503-540.
11. Birks HJB, Birks HH. 2000. Future use of pollen analysis must include plant macrofossils. Journal of Biogeography 27: 31-35.
12. Birks HH, Larsen E, Birks HJB. 2005. Did tree-Betula, Pinus and Picea survive the last glaciation along the west coast of Norway? A review of the evidence, in light of Kullman (2002). Journal of Biogeography 32: 1461-1471.
13. Bowen DQ, Lewis G, Maddy D, Gibbard PL, Preece RC, Campbell S, Hunt CO, Scourse JD, Keen DH, Croot DG, Thomas GSP, Sutherland DG, McCabe AM, Cameron TDJ, Holmes R. 1999. A Revised Correlation of Quaternary Deposits in the British Isles. Geological Society Special Report 23.
14. Brown AP. 1977. Late-Devensian and Flandrian vegetational history of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 276: 251-320.
15. Cacho I, Grimalt JO, Sierro FJ, Shackleton NJ, Canals M. 2001. Evidence for enhanced Mediterranean thermohaline circulation during rapid climatic coolings. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 183: 417-429.
16. Campbell JB. 1977. The Upper Palaeolithic of Britain. Clarendon Press: Oxford.
17. Campbell S, Hunt CO, Scourse JD, Keen DH. 1998. Quaternary of South-West England, Geological Conservation Review Series. Chapman & Hall: London.
18. Caseldine CJ, McGarry SF, Baker A, Hawkesworth C, Smart P. 2007. Late Quaternary speleothem pollen in the British Isles. Journal of Quaternary Science 23: 193-200.
19. Cheddadi R, Vendramin GG, Litt T, Francois L, Kageyama M, Lorentz S, Laurent J-M, Beaulieu J-L, Sadori L, Lost A, Lunt D. 2006. Imprints of glacial refugia in the modern genetic diversity of Pinus sylvestris. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 271-282.
20. Clark RL. 1982. Point count estimation of charcoal in pollen preparations and thin sections of sediments. Pollen et Spores 24: 523-535.
21. Coope GR, Shotton FW, Strachan I. 1961. A late Pleistocene flora and fauna from Upton Warren, Worcestershire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 244: 379-421.
22. Damblon F, Haesaerts P, Van der Plicht J. 1996. New datings and considerations on the chronology of Upper Palaeolithic sites in théenne 9: 177-231.
23. Denton GH, Heusser CJ, Lowell TV, Moreno PI, Andersen BG, Heusser LE, Schluchter C, Marchant DR. 1999. Interhemispheric linkage of paleoclimate during the last glaciation. Geografiska Annaler 81a: 107-153.
24. Denton GH, Alley RB, Comer GC, Broecker WS. 2005. The role of seasonality in abrupt climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 1159-1182.
25. Denton GH, Broecker WS, Alley RB. 2006. The mystery interval 17.5 to 14.5 kyrs ago. Pages News 14: 14-16.
26. Ennos RA, Sinclair WT, Perks MP. 1997. Genetic insights into the evolution of Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris L., in Scotland. Botanical Journal of Scotland 49: 257-265.
27. Follieri M, Magri D, Sadori L. 1988. 250,000-year pollen record from Valle di Castiglione (Roma). Pollen et Spores 30: 329-356.
28. Godwin H. 1975. Quaternary History of the British Flora, (2nd edn). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
29. Hall K. 1990. Quaternary glaciations in the southern ocean: sector 0-long.-180-long. Quaternary Science Reviews 9: 217-228.
30. Hemming SR. 2004. Heinrich events: massive late Pleistocene detritus layers of the North Atlantic and their global climate imprint. Reviews of Geophysics 42: RG1005.
31. Hewitt GM. 1996. Some genetic consequences of ice ages, and their role in divergence and speciation. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 58: 247-276.
32. Hewitt GM. 1999. Post-glacial re-colonization of European biota. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 68: 87-112.
33. Hewitt GM. 2000. The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages. Nature 405: 907-913.
34. Hill DJ, Haywood AM, Hindmarsh RCA, Valdes PJ. 2007. Characterising ice sheets during the mid Pliocene: evidence from data and models. In Deep-Time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies, Williams M, Haywood AM, Gregory J, Schmidt D (eds). Micropalaeontological Society Special Publication. Geological Society: London; 517-538.
35. Huntley B, Birks HJB. 1983. An Atlas of Past and Present Pollen Maps for Europe 0-13,000 Years Ago. Cambridge University Press: New York.
36. Kullman L. 2002. Boreal tree taxa in the central Scandes during the Late-Glacial: implications for Late-Quaternary forest history. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1117-1124.
37. Kullman L. 2008. Early postglacial appearance of tree species in northern Scandinavia: review and perspective. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 2467-2492.
38. Latalowa M, van der Knaap WO. 2007. Late Quaternary expansion of Norway spruce Picea abies (L.) Karst. in Europe according to pollen data. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 2780-2805.
39. Lea DW, Pak DK, Peterson LC, Hughen KA. 2003. Synchroneity of tropical and high-latitude Atlantic temperatures over the Last Glacial termination. Science 301: 1361-1364.
40. Lister AM. 1984. Evolutionary and ecological origins of British deer. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 82: 205-229.
41. Ltyn ́ska-Zajac M. 1995. Anthracological analysis. In Complex of Upper Palaeolithic Sites near Moravany, Western Slovakia, Hromada J, Kozlowski J (eds). Jagiellonian University Press: Kraków, Poland; 74-79.
42. Maddy D, Lewis SG, Scaife RG, Bowen DQ, Coope GR, Green CP, Hardaker Y, Keen DH, Rees-Jones J, Parfitt S, Scott K. 1998. The Upper Pleistocene deposits at Cassington, near Oxford, England. Journal of Quaternary Science 13: 205-231.
43. Magri D. 1999. Late Quaternary vegetation history at Lagacione near lago di Bolsena (central Italy). Reviews of Palaeobotany and Palynology 106: 171-208.
44. Magri D. 2008. Patterns of post-glacial spread and the extent of glacial refugia of European beech (Fagus sylvatica). Journal of Biogeography 35: 450-463.
45. Magri D, Vendramin GG, Comps B, Dupanloup I, Geburek T, Gomory D, Latalowa M, Litt T, Paule L, Roure JM, Tantau I, van der Knaap WO, Petit RJ, de Beaulieu J-L. 2006. A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences. New Phytologist 171: 199-221.
46. McManus JF, Francois R, Gherardi J-M, Keigwin LD, Brown-Leger S. 2004. Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes. Nature 428: 834-837.
47. Mix AC, Bard E, Schneider R. 2001. Environmental processes of the ice age: land, oceans, glaciers (EPILOG). Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 627-657.
48. Monnin E, Indermuhle A, Dallenbach A, Fluckiger J, Stauffer B, Stocker TS, Reynaud D, Barnola J-M. 2001. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the Last Glacial Termination. Science 291: 112-114.
49. Moore PD, Webb JA, Collinson ME. 1991. Pollen Analysis. Blackwell: London. J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 25(3) 296-308 (2010)
50. Morgan A. 1973. The Pleistocene geology of the area north and west of Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 265: 233-297.
51. Musil R. 2003. The Middle and Upper Palaeolithic game suite in central and south-eastern Europe. In Neanderthals and Modern Humans in the European Landscape during the Last Glaciation, van Andel TH, Davies SW (eds). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: Cambridge, UK; 167-190.
52. Newbold C, Hazlehurst D. 2000. Dozmary Pool, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall: A Survey of the Aquatic Macrophytes. English Nature: Peterborough and Truro, UK.
53. Otte M. (ed.). 1994. Le Magdalénien du Trou de Chaleux ERAUL 60, Liege.
54. Provan J, Bennett KD. 2008. Phylogeographic insights into cryptic refugia. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 564-571.
55. Ravazzi C. 2002. Late Quaternary history of spruce in southern Europe. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 120: 131-177.
56. Renssen H, Isarin RFB. 2001. The two major warming phases of the last deglaciation at 14.7 and 11.5ka cal BP in Europe: climate reconstructions and AGCM experiments. Global and Planetary Change 30: 1-2.
57. Rhodes EJ, Bronk Ramsey C, Outram Z, Batt C, Willis L, Dockrill S, Bond J. 2003. Bayesian methods applied to the interpretation of multiple OSL dates: high precision sediment ages from Old Scatness Broch excavations, Shetland Isles. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 1231-1244.
58. Scourse JD. 1991. Late Pleistocene Sratigraphy and Palaeobotany of the Isles of Scilly. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 334: 405-448.
59. Scourse JD. 1996. A field guide for the Isles of Scilly excursions. In Field Guide: Late Quaternary Coastal Change in West Cornwall, Healy MG (ed.). Quaternary Research Association: London.
60. Simpson IM, West RG. 1958. On the stratigraphy and palaeobotany of a Late-Pleistocene organic deposit at Chelford, Cheshire. New Phytologist 57: 239-250.
61. Sinclair WT, Morman JD, Ennos RA. 1998. Multiple origins for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Scotland: evidence from mitochondrial DNA variation. Heredity 80: 233-240.
62. Stewart JR, Cooper A. 2008. Introduction: Ice Age refugia and Quaternary extinctions: an issue of Quaternary evolutionary palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews 17: 2443-2448.
63. Stewart JR, Lister AM. 2001. Cryptic northern refugia and the origins of the modern biota. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 608-613.
64. Stuiver M, Reimer PJ. 1993. Radiocarbon calibration program CALIB Rev5.0.2. Radiocarbon 35: 215-230.
65. Svenning J-C, Normand S, Kageyama M. 2008. Glacial refugia of temperate trees in Europe: insights from species distribution modelling. Journal of Ecology 96: 1117-1127.
66. Terhurne-Berson R, Litt T, Cheddadi R. 2004. The spread of Abies throughout Europe since the last glacial period: combined macrofossil and pollen data. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13: 257-268.
67. Troels-Smith J. 1955. Characterisation of unconsolidated sediments. Danmarks Geologiske Undersoegelse 4: 1-73.
68. Tzedakis PC. 1993. Long-term tree populations in northwest Greece through multiple Quaternary climatic cycles. Nature 364: 437-440.
69. Tzedakis PC, Lawson IT, Frogley MR, Hewitt GM, Preece RC. 2002. Buffered tree populations in a Quaternary refugium: evolutionary implications. Science 297: 2044-2047.
70. UK Met Office. 2009. www.metoffice.gov.uk [January 2009].
71. West RG. 2000. Plant Life of the Quaternary. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
72. Willis KJ, van Andel TH. 2004. Trees or no trees? The environments of central and eastern Europe during the Last Glaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 2369-2387.
73. Willis KJ, Rudner E, Sumegi P. 2000. The full-glacial forests of Central and Southeastern Europe. Quaternary Research 53: 203-213.