Asynchrony in key Holocene chronologies: Evidence from Irish bog pines

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 799-802

  Torbenson, Max C A ^a,b   Plunkett, Gill ^a   Brown, David M ^a   Pilcher, Jonathan R ^a   Leuschner, Hanns Hubert ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE COOLING; GREENLAND ICE CORES; HYDROCLIMATIC; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDY; RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; TIME-SCALES;

WETLANDS;

BOG; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; IRELAND;

EID: 84949500127     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36914.1     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Ågren, J., and Zackrisson, O., 1990, Age and size structure of Pinus sylvestris populations on mires in central and northern Sweden: Journal of Ecology, v. 78, p. 1049-1062, doi:10.2307/2260951.
2. Baillie, M.G.L., 1982, Tree-ring dating and archaeology: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 274 p.
3. Baillie, M.G.L., 1991, Suck-in and smear. Two related chronological problems for the 90's: Journal of Theoretical Archaeology, v. 2, p. 12-16.
4. st millennium: Climate of the Past, v. 11, p. 105-114, doi:10.5194/cp-11-105-2015.
5. Baldini, J.U.L., McDermott, F., and Fairchild, I.J., 2002, Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record: Science, v. 296, p. 2203-2206, doi:10.1126/science.1071776.
6. Bauer, E., Ganopolski, A., and Montoya, M., 2004, Simulation of the cold climate event 8200 years ago by meltwater outburst from Lake Agassiz: Paleoceanography, v. 19, PA3014, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001030.
7. Blaauw, M., 2012, Out of tune: The dangers of aligning proxy archives: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 36, p. 38-49, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.11.012.
8. Blackford, J.J., Payne, R.J., Heggen, M.P., de la Riva Caballero, A., and van der Plicht, J., 2014, Age and impacts of the caldera-forming Aniakchak II eruption in western Alaska: Quaternary Research, v. 82, p. 85-95, doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2014.04.013.
9. Bradley, R.S., 2008, Holocene perspectives on future climate change, in Battarbee, R.W., and Binney, H.A., eds., Natural climate variability and global warming-A Holocene perspective: Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, p. 254-268.
10. Bridge, M.C., Haggart, B.A., and Lowe, J.J., 1990, The history and palaeoclimatic significance of subfossil remains of Pinus sylvestris in blanket peats from Scotland: Journal of Ecology, v. 78, p. 77-99, doi:10.2307/2261038.
11. Charman, D., 2007, Water deficit variability controls on peatland water-table changes: Implications for Holocene palaeoclimate reconstructions: The Holocene, v. 17, p. 217-227, doi: 10.1177/0959683607075836.
12. Cook, E.R., 1985, A time series analysis approach to tree-ring standardization [Ph.D. thesis]: Tucson, University of Arizona, 171 p.
13. Coulter, S.E., Pilcher, J.R., Plunkett, G., Baillie, M.G.L., Hall, V.A., Steffensen, J.P., Vinther, B.M., Clausen, H.B., and Johnsen, S.J., 2012, Holocene tephras highlight complexity of volcanic signals in Greenland ice cores: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 117, D21303, doi: 10.1029/2012JD017698.
14. Daley, T.J., et al., 2011, The 8200 yr B.P. cold event in stable isotope records from the North Atlantic region: Global and Planetary Change, v. 79, p. 288-302, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.03.006.
15. Eckstein, J., Leuschner, H.H., Bauerochse, A., and Sass-Klaassen, U.G.W., 2009, Subfossil bogpine horizons document climate and ecosystem changes during the mid-Holocene: Dendrochronologia, v. 27, p. 129-146, doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2009.06.007.
16. Edvardsson, J., Linderson, H., Rundgren, M., and Hammarlund, D., 2012, Holocene peatland development and hydrological variability inferred from bog-pine dendrochronology and peat stratigraphy-A case study from southern Sweden: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 27, p. 553-563, doi:10.1002/jqs.2543.
17. Gunnarsson, U., and Rydin, H., 1998, Demography and recruitment of Scots pine on raised bogs in eastern Sweden and relationships to microhabitat differentiation: Wetlands, v. 18, p. 133-141, doi: 10.1007/BF03161450.
18. Kilian, M.R., van der Plicht, J., and van Geel, B., 1995, Dating raised bogs: New aspects of AMS 14C wiggle matching, a reservoir effect and climatic change: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 14, p. 959-966, doi:10.1016/0277-3791(95)00081-X.
19. Kobashi, T., Severinghaus, J.P., Brook, E.J., Barnola, J.-M., and Grachev, A.M., 2007, Precise timing and characterization of abrupt climate change 8200 years ago from air trapped in polar ice: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, p. 1212-1222, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.01.009.
20. Lafleur, P.M., Hember, R.A., Admiral, S.W., and Roulet, N.T., 2005, Annual and seasonal variability in evapotranspiration and water table at a shrub-covered bog in southern Ontario, Canada: Hydrological Processes, v. 19, p. 3533-3550, doi:10.1002/hyp.5842.
21. Li, B., Nychka, D.W., and Ammann, C.M., 2010, The value of multiproxy reconstruction of past climate: American Statistical Association Journal, v. 105, p. 883-895, doi:10.1198/jasa.2010.ap09379.
22. Linderholm, H.W., Moberg, A., and Grudd, H., 2002, Peatland pines as climate indicators? A regional comparison of the climatic influence on Scots pine growth in Sweden: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, v. 32, p. 1400-1410, doi: 10.1139/x02-071.
23. 14C ages of the Vedde and Saksunarvatn ashes and the Younger Dryas boundaries from western Norway and their comparison with the Greenland Ice Core (GICC05) chronology: Journal of Quaternary Science, v. 28, p. 490-500, doi:10.1002/jqs.2640.
24. Morrill, C., and Jacobsen, R.M., 2005, How widespread were climate anomalies 8200 years ago?: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 32, L19701, doi:10.1029/2005GL023536.
25. 14C record: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 23, p. 2101-2111, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.08.007.
26. Muscheler, R., Adolphi, F., and Knudsen, M.F., 2014, Assessing the differences between the IntCal and Greenland ice-core time scales for the last 14,000 years via the common cosmogenic radionuclide variations: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 106, p. 81-87, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.017.
27. Pilcher, J.R., Baillie, M.G.L., Brown, D.M., McCormac, F.G., MacSweeney, P.B., and McLawrence, A.S., 1995, Dendrochronology of subfossil pine in the north of Ireland: Journal of Ecology, v. 83, p. 665-671, doi:10.2307/2261634.
28. Rasmussen, S.O., et al., 2006, A new Greenland ice core chronology for the last glacial termination: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, D06102, doi:10.1029/2005JD006079.
29. Reimer, P.J., et al., 2009, INTCAL09 and MARINE09 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0-50,000 years cal BP: Radiocarbon, v. 51, p. 1111-1150.
30. Richardson, D.M., 2000, Ecology and biogeography of Pinus: Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 490 p.
31. Rohling, E.J., and Pälike, H., 2005, Centennial-scale climate cooling with a sudden cold event around 8,200 years ago: Nature, v. 434, p. 975-979, doi: 10.1038/nature03421.
32. Rousseau, D.-D., Preece, R., and Limondin-Lozouet, N., 1998, British late glacial and Holocene climatic history reconstructed from land snail assemblages: Geology, v. 26, p. 651-654, doi: 10.1130/0091-761319980260651:BLGAHC2.3.CO;2.
33. Smith, A.G., 1958, Pollen analytical investigations of the mire at Fallahogy Td. Co. Derry: Royal Irish Academy Proceedings, ser. B, v. 59, p. 329-343.
34. Smith, A.G., and Goddard, I.C., 1991, A 12500 year record of vegetational history at Sluggan Bog, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland (incorporating a pollen zone scheme for the non-specialist): The New Phytologist, v. 118, p. 167-187, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1991.tb00576.x.
35. Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Baird, A.J., Blaauw, M., and Plunkett, G., 2012, Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat-based climate reconstructions: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 39, L11401, doi:10.1029/2012GL051500.
36. Thomas, E.R., Wolff, E.W., Mulvaney, R., Steffensen, J.P., Johnsen, S.J., Arrowsmith, C., White, J.W.C., Vaughn, B., and Popp, T., 2007, The 8.2 ka event from Greenland ice cores: Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 26, p. 70-81, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.017.
37. Tindall, J.C., and Valdes, P.J., 2011, Modeling the 8.2ka event using coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM: Global and Planetary Change, v. 79, p. 312- 321, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.02.004.
38. Tinner, W., and Lotter, A.F., 2001, Central European vegetation response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka: Geology, v. 29, p. 551-554, doi: 10.1130/0091-761320010290551:CEVRTA2.0.CO;2.
39. Tipping, R., Ashmore, P., Davies, A.L., Haggart, B.A., Moir, A., Newton, A., Sands, R., Skinner, T., and Tisdall, E., 2008, Prehistoric Pinus woodland dynamics in an upland landscape in northern Scotland: The roles of climate change and human impact: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, v. 17, p. 251-267, doi:10.1007/s00334-007-0120-z.
40. Vinther, B.M., et al., 2006, A synchronized dating of three Greenland ice cores throughout the Holocene: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111, D13102, doi:10.1029/2005JD006921.
41. Zackrisson, O., Nilsson, M.-C., Steijlen, I., and Hörnberg, G., 1995, Regeneration pulses and climate-vegetation interactions in nonpyrogenic boreal Scots pine stands: Journal of Ecology, v. 83, p. 469-483, doi:10.2307/2261600