Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal and multi-annual variation in the abundance of isoprenoid GDGT membrane lipids and their producers in the water column of a meromictic …

AJ Baxter, LGJ Van Bree, F Peterse… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (isoGDGTs) are membrane lipids of Archaea.
Organic biomarker proxies associated with these lipids, such as the TEX 86 …

[HTML][HTML] Reversed Holocene temperature–moisture relationship in the Horn of Africa

AJ Baxter, D Verschuren, F Peterse, DG Miralles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change is predicted to severely impact the global hydrological cycle,
particularly in tropical regions where agriculture-based economies depend on monsoon …

[HTML][HTML] Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events

DA Willard, TH Donders, T Reichgelt… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Early Eocene global climate was warmer than much of the Cenozoic and was punctuated by
a series of transient warming events or 'hyperthermals' associated with carbon isotope …

A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis”

LR Godfrey, N Scroxton, BE Crowley, SJ Burns… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fundamental disagreements remain regarding the relative importance of climate change
and human activities as triggers for Madagascar's Holocene megafaunal extinction. We use …

Hemispherically in-phase precipitation variability over the last 1700 years in a Madagascar speleothem record

N Scroxton, SJ Burns, D McGee, B Hardt… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Paleoclimate studies of tropical rainfall have led to a recognition of a predominant pattern of
anti-phase behavior between the Northern and Southern hemispheres at both orbital and …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal variability in the abundance and stable carbon-isotopic composition of lipid biomarkers in suspended particulate matter from a stratified equatorial …

LGJ Van Bree, F Peterse, MTJ Van der Meer… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
We studied the distribution and stable carbon-isotopic (δ 13 C) composition of various lipid
biomarkers in suspended particulate matter (SPM) from the water column of Lake Chala, a …

Late Holocene Mongolian climate and environment reconstructions from brGDGTs, NPPs and pollen transfer functions for Lake Ayrag: Paleoclimate implications for …

L Dugerdil, G Ménot, O Peyron… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
A coupled pollen-brGDGT paleoclimate reconstruction approach has been tested to provide
independent and robust estimates of Holocene climate and environment changes in the …

Hydroclimate in Africa during the medieval climate anomaly

S Lüning, M Gałka, IB Danladi, TA Adagunodo… - Palaeogeography …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is a recognized period of distinct pre-
industrial climate change, with a core period of 1000–1200 CE. The field of …

[HTML][HTML] Climate reconstructions based on GDGT and pollen surface datasets from Mongolia and Baikal area: calibrations and applicability to extremely cold–dry …

L Dugerdil, S Joannin, O Peyron… - Climate of the …, 2021 - cp.copernicus.org
Our understanding of climate and vegetation changes throughout the Holocene is hampered
by representativeness in sedimentary archives. Potential biases such as production and …