Publication Date:
2011-02-24
Description:
Publication year: 2011 Source: Quaternary Research, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 February 2011 J. Sakari, Salonen , Heikki, Seppä , Minna, Väliranta , Vivienne J., Jones , Angela, Self , ... To investigate the Holocene climate and treeline dynamics in the European Russian Arctic, we analysed sediment pollen, conifer stomata, and plant macrofossils from Lake Kharinei, a tundra lake near the treeline in the Pechora area. We present quantitative summer temperature reconstructions from Lake Kharinei and Lake Tumbulovaty, a previously studied lake in the same region, using a pollen–climate transfer function based on a new calibration set from northern European Russia. Our records suggest that the early-Holocene summer temperatures from 11,500calyr BP onwards were already slightly higher than at present, followed by a stable Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) at 8000–3500calyr BP...
Print ISSN:
0033-5894
Electronic ISSN:
1096-0287
Topics:
Geography
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Geosciences
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