The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination

D Palacios, CR Stokes, FM Phillips, JJ Clague… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current understanding of deglaciation in North, Central and South
America from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Together with …

Rocky Mountain subalpine forests now burning more than any time in recent millennia

PE Higuera, BN Shuman… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The 2020 fire season punctuated a decades-long trend of increased fire activity across the
western United States, nearly doubling the total area burned in the central Rocky Mountains …

Tree rings reveal unmatched 2nd century drought in the Colorado River Basin

S Gangopadhyay, CA Woodhouse… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing 22‐year drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) has been
extremely severe, even in the context of the longest available tree‐ring reconstruction of …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental and climate evolution in the Southwest USA since the last interglacial deduced from the pollen record from Stoneman lake, Arizona

G Jiménez-Moreno, RS Anderson, V Markgraf… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Long and continuous lake sedimentary records offer enormous potential for interpreting the
paleoenvironmental histories of the past and for understanding how terrestrial environments …

Holocene vegetation and climate change recorded in alpine bog sediments from the Borreguiles de la Virgen, Sierra Nevada, southern Spain

G Jiménez-Moreno, RS Anderson - Quaternary Research, 2012 - cambridge.org
High-resolution pollen and magnetic susceptibility (MS) analyses have been carried out on
a sediment core taken from a high-elevation alpine bog area located in Sierra Nevada …

Vegetation, fire, climate and human disturbance history in the southwestern Mediterranean area during the late Holocene

G Jiménez-Moreno, A García-Alix… - Quaternary …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Detailed pollen, charcoal, isotope and magnetic susceptibility data from an alpine lake
sediment core from Sierra Nevada, southern Spain record changes in vegetation, fire history …

Medieval warming initiated exceptionally large wildfire outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains

WJ Calder, D Parker, CJ Stopka… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Many of the largest wildfires in US history burned in recent decades, and climate change
explains much of the increase in area burned. The frequency of extreme wildfire weather will …

Holocene seasonal variability inferred from multiple proxy records from Crevice Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA

C Whitlock, WE Dean, SC Fritz, LR Stevens… - Palaeogeography …, 2012 - Elsevier
A 9400-yr-old record from Crevice Lake, a semi-closed alkaline lake in northern Yellowstone
National Park, was analyzed for pollen, charcoal, geochemistry, mineralogy, diatoms, and …

Impact of late-Holocene aridification trend, climate variability and geodynamic control on the environment from a coastal area in SW Spain

G Jiménez-Moreno, A Rodríguez-Ramírez… - The …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A detailed pollen analysis has been carried out on two sediment cores taken from a marsh
area located in the Doñana National Park, southwestern Spain. The studied sedimentary …

Fire‐regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial‐through millennial‐scale climate change in R ocky M ountain subalpine forests, C olorado, USA

PE Higuera, CE Briles, C Whitlock - Journal of Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Key uncertainties in anticipating future fire regimes are their sensitivity to climate change,
and the degree to which climate will impact fire regimes directly, through increasing the …