The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

Speleothems have become a cornerstone of the approach to better understanding Earth's
climatic teleconnections due to their precise absolute chronologies, their continuous or …

A likely consequence of global warming will be the redistribution of Earth's rain belts,
affecting water availability for many of Earth's inhabitants. We consider three ways in which …

Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most
particularly information that can be used to reconstruct past changes in precipitation and …

Recent wildfire activity in semi-arid regions like western North America exceeds the range of
historical records. High-resolution paleoclimate archives such as stalagmites could …

Correlation analysis is omnipresent in paleoclimatology, and often serves to support the
proposed climatic interpretation of a given proxy record. However, this analysis presents …

While the climate evolution of North America during the last deglaciation has received
considerable attention, few detailed model–data comparisons of the deglacial hydroclimate …

Abstract At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), records suggest drier conditions in the
northwest United States and wetter conditions in the southwest United States relative to …

Highly resolved, well-dated paleoclimate records from the southern South African coast are
needed to contextualize the evolution of the highly diverse extratropical plant communities of …

The stable carbon isotope compositions of C 3 plants are controlled by the carbon isotope
composition of atmospheric CO 2 (δ 13 C a) and by the stomatal response to water stress …