Millennial Climatic Fluctuations Are Key to the Structure of Last Glacial Ecosystems

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Huntley, Brian ^a   Allen, Judy R M ^a   Collingham, Yvonne C ^a   Hickler, Thomas ^b,c   Lister, Adrian M ^d   Singarayer, Joy ^e   Stuart, Anthony J ^a   Sykes, Martin T ^f   Valdes, Paul J ^e  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLACIER; HOLOCENE; SIMULATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ICE COVER;

EID: 84876167016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061963     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. FAUNMAP Working Group (1996) Spatial response of mammals to late Quaternary environmental fluctuations. Science 272: 1601-1606.
2. Stuart AJ, Lister AM, (2012) Extinction chronology of the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis in the context of late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions in northern Eurasia. Quaternary Science Reviews 51: 1-17.
3. Binney HA, Willis KJ, Edwards ME, Bhagwat SA, Anderson PM, et al. (2009) The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 2445-2464.
4. Huntley B, Alfano MJ, Allen JRM, Pollard D, Tzedakis PC, et al. (2003) European vegetation during marine oxygen isotope Stage 3. Quaternary Research 59: 195-212.
5. Sher AV, Kuzmina SA, Kuznetsova TV, Sulerzhitsky LD, (2005) New insights into the Weichselian environment and climate of the East Siberian Arctic, derived from fossil insects, plants, and mammals. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 533-569.
6. Zazula GD, Schweger CE, Beaudoin AB, McCourt GH, (2006) Macrofossil and pollen evidence for full-glacial steppe within an ecological mosaic along the Bluefish River, eastern Beringia. Quaternary International 142: 2-19.
7. Williams JW, (2003) Variations in tree cover in North America since the last glacial maximum. Global and Planetary Change 35: 1-23.
8. Barron E, Pollard D, (2002) High-resolution climate simulations of oxygen isotope stage 3 in Europe. Quaternary Research 58: 296-309.
9. Alfano MJ, Barron EJ, Pollard D, Huntley B, Allen JRM, (2003) Comparison of climate model results with European vegetation and permafrost during oxygen isotope stage three. Quaternary Research 59: 97-107.
10. Singarayer JS, Valdes PJ, (2010) High-latitude climate sensitivity to ice-sheet forcing over the last 120 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 43-55.
11. Kjellstrom E, Brandefelt J, Naslund JO, Smith B, Strandberg G, et al. (2010) Simulated climate conditions in Europe during the Marine Isotope Stage 3 stadial. Boreas 39: 436-456.
12. Sitch S, Smith B, Prentice IC, Arneth A, Bondeau A, et al. (2003) Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model. Global Change Biology 9: 161-185.
13. Cramer W, Bondeau A, Woodward FI, Prentice IC, Betts RA, et al. (2001) Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models. Global Change Biology 7: 357-373.
14. Smith B, Prentice IC, Sykes MT, (2001) Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches within European climate space. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10: 621-637.
15. Allen JRM, Hickler T, Singarayer JS, Sykes MT, Valdes PJ, et al. (2010) Last glacial vegetation of northern Eurasia. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 2604-2618.
16. Wolff EW, Chappellaz J, Blunier T, Rasmussen SO, Svensson A, (2010) Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial: The ice core record. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 2828-2838.
17. Bond G, Broecker W, Johnsen S, McManus J, Labeyrie L, et al. (1993) Correlations between climate records from North Atlantic sediments and Greenland ice. Nature 365: 143-147.
18. Seidov D, Maslin M, (1999) North Atlantic deep water circulation collapse during Heinrich events. Geology 27: 23-26.
19. Sher A (1997) Late-Quaternary extinction of large mammals in northern Eurasia: A new look at the Siberian contribution. In: Huntley B, Cramer W, Morgan AV, Prentice HC, Allen JRM, editors. Past and future rapid environmental changes: The spatial and evolutionary responses of terrestrial biota. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. pp. 319-339.
20. New M, Hulme M, Jones P, (1999) Representing twentieth-century space-time climate variability. Part I: Development of a 1961-90 mean monthly terrestrial climatology. Journal of Climate 12: 829-856.
21. Huntley B, Allen JRM, Barnard P, Collingham YC, Holliday PR, (2013) Species' distribution models indicate contrasting late-Quaternary histories for southern and northern hemisphere bird species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 277-288.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Huntley B, Birks HJB (1983) An atlas of past and present pollen maps for Europe: 0-13000 B.P. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 667 p.
25. Davis MB (1983) Holocene vegetational history of the eastern United States. In: Wright HE, Jr, editor. Late Quaternary Environments of the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. pp. 166-181.
26. Lister AM, Sher AV, (1995) Ice cores and mammoth extinction. Nature 378: 23-24.
27. Allen JRM, Huntley B, (2000) Weichselian palynological records from southern Europe: correlation and chronology. Quaternary International 73/74: 111-125.
28. Müller UC, Pross J, Bibus E, (2003) Vegetation response to rapid climate change in Central Europe during the past 140,000 yr based on evidence from the Füramoos pollen record. Quaternary Research 59: 235-245.
29. Martinson DG, Pisias NG, Hays JD, Imbrie J, Moore TC Jr, et al. (1987) Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year chronostratigraphy. Quaternary Research 27: 1-29.
30. Vartanyan SL, Garutt VE, Sher AV, (1993) Holocene Dwarf Mammoths from Wrangel-Island in the Siberian Arctic. Nature 362: 337-340.
31. Guthrie RD, (2004) Radiocarbon evidence of mid-Holocene mammoths stranded on an Alaskan Bering Sea island. Nature 429: 746-749.
32. MacPhee RDE, Tikhonov AN, Mol D, Greenwood AD, (2005) Late Quaternary loss of genetic diversity in muskox (Ovibos). BMC Evolutionary Biology 5: 1-13.
33. Bennike O, Andreasen C, (2005) Radiocarbon dating of musk-ox (Ovibos moschatus) remains from northeast Greenland. Polar Record 41: 305-310.
34. Kienast F, Wetterich S, Kuzmina S, Schirrmeister L, Andreev AA, et al. (2011) Paleontological records indicate the occurrence of open woodlands in a dry inland climate at the present-day Arctic coast in western Beringia during the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2134-2159.
35. Barnosky AD, Koch PL, Feranec RS, Wing SL, Shabel AB, (2004) Assessing the causes of Late Pleistocene extinctions on the continents. Science 306: 70-75.
36. Trenberth KE, Jones PD, Ambenje P, Bojariu R, Easterling D, et al. (2007) Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change. In: Solomon S, Qin D, Manning M, Chen Z, Marquis M et al., editors. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. pp. 235-336.
37. Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, Co-authors (2007) Technical Summary. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. In: Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP, Linden PJvd, Hanson CE, editors. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 23-78.
38. Peltier WR, (2004) Global glacial isostasy and the surface of the ice-age earth: The ICE-5G (VM2) model and GRACE. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 32: 111-149.
39. Fairbanks RG, (1989) A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea level record: Influence of glacial melting rates on the Younger Dryas event and deep-ocean circulation. Nature 342: 637-642.
40. Bard E, Hamelin B, Fairbanks RG, (1990) U-Th ages obtained by mass-spectrometry in corals from Barbados-Sea-level during the past 130,000 years. Nature 346: 456-458.
41. Ehlers J, Gibbard PL, (2004) editors (2004) Quaternary glaciations: Extent and chronology (3 Vols.). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science 488: 450p.