Climate variability and associated vegetation response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka

A Feurdean, A Perşoiu, I Tanţău, T Stevens… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Records of past climate variability and associated vegetation response exist in various
regions throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To date, there has been no coherent …

Changing state of the climate system

SK Gulev, PW Thorne, J Ahn, FJ Dentener… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
2 Chapter 2 assesses observed large-scale changes in climate system drivers, key climate
indicators and 3 principal modes of variability. Chapter 3 considers model performance and …

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change in the Australian drylands

KE Fitzsimmons, TJ Cohen, PP Hesse, J Jansen… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we synthesise existing palaeoenvironmental data from the arid and semi-arid
interior of the Australian continent for the period 40–0 ka. Moisture is the predominant …

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

O Mottl, SGA Flantua, KP Bhatta, VA Felde, T Giesecke… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Global vegetation over the past 18,000 years has been transformed first by the climate
changes that accompanied the last deglaciation and again by increasing human pressures; …

Museum genomics reveals the rapid decline and extinction of Australian rodents since European settlement

E Roycroft, AJ MacDonald, C Moritz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Australia has the highest historically recorded rate of mammalian extinction in the world, with
34 terrestrial species declared extinct since European colonization in 1788. Among …

Climate determines vascular traits in the ecologically diverse genus Eucalyptus

S Pfautsch, M Harbusch, A Wesolowski, R Smith… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Current theory presumes that natural selection on vascular traits is controlled by a trade‐off
between efficiency and safety of hydraulic architecture. Hence, traits linked to efficiency …

The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology–Part 2: Annual-layer counting (0–31 ka BP)

M Sigl, TJ Fudge, M Winstrup, J Cole-Dai… - Climate of the …, 2016 - cp.copernicus.org
We present the WD2014 chronology for the upper part (0–2850 m; 31.2 ka BP) of the West
Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide (WD) ice core. The chronology is based on counting of …

Coordination of stem and leaf traits define different strategies to regulate water loss and tolerance ranges to aridity

R López, FJ Cano, NK Martin‐StPaul… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation to drought involves complex interactions of traits that vary within and among
species. To date, few data are available to quantify within‐species variation in functional …

Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation

JM Reeves, TT Barrows, TJ Cohen, AS Kiem… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Australian region spans some 60° of latitude and 50° of longitude and displays
considerable regional climate variability both today and during the Late Quaternary. A …

A continental narrative: Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years

AN Williams, P Veth, W Steffen, S Ulm… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Drawing on the recent synthesis of Australian palaeoclimate by the OZ-INTIMATE group
(Reeves et al., 2013a), we consider the effects of climate systems on past human settlement …