georefid:2013-044196SEDIS Publication Catalogueana.macario@awi.dehttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/informationpointOfContact2013-07-08T00:00:00Zhttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=10.1002/jqs.2617<gco:CharacterString>Environmental variability during the last interglacial; a new high-resolution pollen record from Tenaghi Philippon, Greece</gco:CharacterString>2013-01-01publicationgeorefid:2013-044196doi:10.1002/jqs.2617Milner, Alice M.University College London, Department of Geography, London, United KingdomauthorMueller, Ulrich C.Goethe University Frankfurt, Paleoenvironmental Dynamics Group, GermanyauthorRoucoux, Katherine H.University of Leeds, United KingdomauthorCollier, Richard E. L.Integral Resource Consulting, AustraliaauthorPross, JoergUniversity of Patras, GreeceauthorKalaitzidis, StavrosauthorChristanis, KimonauthorTzedakis, Polychronis C.authorJohn Wiley and Sons for the Quaternary Research Association, Chichester, United KingdompublisherdocumentHardcopyJQS. Journal of Quaternary Science28 (2)113-117A new high-resolution Last Interglacial pollen record from the Tenaghi Philippon peatland, northeast Greece, documents variability in forest composition and cover, which we attribute to changes in temperature and moisture availability. The declining stage of the interglacial was marked by a stepwise decrease in temperate tree populations and culminated in the complete collapse of forest at the onset of the ensuing stadial. The coincidence of the onset of the stepwise declining trend with the increased prominence of North Atlantic ice-rafting events suggests that ecological thresholds in southern Europe were only crossed once ice rafting events intensified, and implies that changes in North Atlantic ocean circulation were an important contributing factor to the declining temperate forest cover in southern Europe. Our results provide evidence for intra-interglacial variability in the low mid latitudes and suggest a coupling between the high northern latitudes and the northeast Mediterranean during this interval. Abstract Copyright (2010), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.completedQuaternary geologyAtlantic OceanbiomesCenozoicEast MediterraneanEemianEuropeforestsglaciationGreeceGreek Macedoniaice raftinginterglacial environmentisotope ratiosisotopeslatitudeLeg 160Leg 162MacedoniaMediterranean regionMediterranean SeamicrofossilsmiosporesmiresNorth AtlanticO-18/O-16ocean circulationOcean Drilling ProgramODP Site 963ODP Site 980oxygenpaleo-oceanographypaleoclimatologypaleoenvironmentpalynomorphspeatlandsplanktonPleistocenepollenpollen analysisQuaternaryRockall BankSouthern Europestable isotopesstatistical analysisStrait of SicilyTenaghi Philippontreesupper Pleistocenevariationsurn:org.iodp:exp:160urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignurn:org.iodp:exp:162urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignurn:org.iodp:exp:160:site:963urnlargerWorkCitationstudyurn:org.iodp:exp:160urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignurn:org.iodp:exp:162:site:980urnlargerWorkCitationstudyurn:org.iodp:exp:162urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignEnglishgeoscientificInformation-14.420824.132637.020255.2906