georefid:2010-030230SEDIS Publication Catalogueana.macario@awi.dehttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/informationpointOfContact2011-07-06T00:00:00Zhttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=2010-030230<gco:CharacterString>Rapid climatic variability in the West Mediterranean during the last 25 000 years from high resolution pollen data</gco:CharacterString>2009-01-01publicationgeorefid:2010-030230Combourieu Nebout, NathalieLaboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, FranceauthorPeyron, OdileUniversite de Franche-Comte, FranceauthorDormoy, IsabelleUniversitaet Hamburg, Federal Republic of GermanyauthorDesprat, StephanieUniversity of Liverpool, United KingdomauthorBeaudouin, CeliaauthorKotthoff, UlrichauthorMarret, FabienneauthorCopernicus, Katlenburg-Lindau, InternationalpublisherdocumentDigitalClimate of the Past5 (3)503-521High-temporal resolution pollen record from the Alboran Sea ODP Site 976, pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction and biomisation show that changes of Mediterranean vegetation have been clearly modulated by short and long term variability during the last 25 000 years. The reliability of the quantitative climate reconstruction from marine pollen spectra has been tested using 22 marine core-top samples from the Mediterranean. The ODP Site 976 pollen record and climatic reconstruction confirm that Mediterranean environments have a rapid response to the climatic fluctuations during the last Termination. The western Mediterranean vegetation response appears nearly synchronous with North Atlantic variability during the last deglaciation as well as during the Holocene. High-resolution analyses of the ODP Site 976 pollen record show a cooling trend during the Boelling/Allerod period. In addition, this period is marked by two warm episodes bracketing a cooling event that represent the Boelling-Older Dryas-Allerod succession. During the Holocene, recurrent declines of the forest cover over the Alboran Sea borderlands indicate climate events that correlate well with several events of increased Mediterranean dryness observed on the continent and with Mediterranean Sea cooling episodes detected by alkenone-based sea surface temperature reconstructions. These events clearly reflect the response of the Mediterranean vegetation to the North Atlantic Holocene cold events.completedQuaternary geologyAfricaAlboran SeaAllerodarid environmentBetic CordilleraBollingCenozoicclimate changedeglaciationEuropeforestsGulf of CadixGulf of LionHeinrich eventsHoloceneIberian Peninsulalast glacial maximumLeg 161Mediterranean regionMediterranean SeamicrofossilsmiosporesMoroccoNorth AfricaOcean Drilling ProgramODP Site 976ODP Site 979Older DryaspaleoclimatologypalynomorphsPleistocenepollenQuaternaryRifSouthern EuropeSpainterrestrial environmentupper Pleistoceneupper WeichselianvegetationWeichselianWest MediterraneanYounger Dryasurn:org.iodp:exp:161urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignurn:org.iodp:exp:161:site:976urnlargerWorkCitationstudyurn:org.iodp:exp:161urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignurn:org.iodp:exp:161:site:979urnlargerWorkCitationstudyurn:org.iodp:exp:161urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignEnglishgeoscientificInformation-5.3000-1.000035.050036.4500Alboran SeaPart of special issue No. 18, Data/model interactions; the biological perspective of understanding past global changes, edited by Rousseau, D. D. et al., http://www.clim-past.net/special_issue18.html; published in Climate of the Past Discussion: 24 February 2009, http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/5/671/2009/cpd-5-671-2009.html; accessed in January, 2010application/pdfunknownSEDIS Publication Catalogueana.macario@awi.dehttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/informationpointOfContacthttp://www.clim-past.net/5/503/2009/cp-5-503-2009.pdfdownload