Special issues
This Special Issue is partly an outcome from discussions held at the PAGES DICE working group workshop at Las Cruces, Chile, in January 2018. The aim of the Special Issue is to contribute to a better understanding of the role of dust aerosols by analysing the evolution and climatic impact of atmospheric dust over long and short timescales within the Holocene.
Editorial
> Holocene dust dynamics: Introduction to the special issue
François De Vleeschouwer, Jan-Berend W Stuut and Fabrice Lambert
Research Papers
> 14 kyr of atmospheric mineral dust deposition in north-eastern China: A record of palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental changes in the Chinese dust source regions
Steve Pratte, Kunshan Bao, Atindra Sapkota, Wenfang Zhang, Ji Shen, Gaël Le Roux and François De Vleeschouwer
> Holocene atmospheric dust deposition in NW Spain
Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Olalla López-Costas, Lisa Orme, Tim Mighall, Malin E Kylander, Richard Bindler and Ángela Gallego Sala
> Dust deposition tracks late-Holocene shifts in monsoon activity and the increasing role of human disturbance in the Puna-Altiplano, northwest Argentina
James Hooper, Samuel K Marx, Jan-Hendrik May, Liliana C Lupo, Julio J Kulemeyer, Elizabeth de los Á Pereira, Osamu Seki, Henk Heijnis, David Child, Patricia Gadd and Atun Zawadzki
> New insights on sources contributing dust to the loess record of the western edge of the Pampean Plain during the transition from the late MIS 2 to the early Holocene
Gabriela Torre, Diego M Gaiero, Nicolás Juan Cosentino, Renata Coppo and André Oliveira-Sawakuchi
> Holocene dust in East Antarctica: Provenance and variability in time and space
Barbara Delmonte, Holly Winton, Mélanie Baroni, Giovanni Baccolo, Margareta Hansson, Per Andersson, Carlo Baroni, Maria Cristina Salvatore, Luca Lanci and Valter Maggi
> Dust-drought interactions over the last 15,000 years: A network of lake sediment records from the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Stephanie H Arcusa, Nicholas P McKay, Cody C Routson and Samuel E Munoz
> Atmospheric dust dynamics in southern South America: A 14-year modern dust record in the loessic Pampean region
Nicolás J Cosentino, Diego M Gaiero, Gabriela Torre, Andrea I Pasquini, Renata Coppo, Juan M Arce and Georgina Vélez
> Dust deposition drives microbial metabolism in a remote, high-elevation catchment
Amy Bigelow, Natalie Mladenov, David Lipson and Mark Williams
This Special Issue of Quaternary aims to present the diversity within the field and the state-of-the-art research on lake varves at all timescales and environments. It is a contribution to the Varves Working Group, a former PAGES working group and now a PAGES-endorsed group.
Find out more about the PAGES-endorsed Varves Working Group here.
This special issue is also available in book form here.
Papers in this special issue:
> Annually Laminated Lake Sediments—Recent Progress
Tylmann W and Zolitschka B
> Modern Analogue Approach Applied to High-Resolution Varved Sediments—A Synthesis for Lake Montcortès (Central Pyrenees)
Vegas-Vilarrubia T et al.
> Varve Distribution Reveals Spatiotemporal Hypolimnetic Hypoxia Oscillations During the Past 200 Years in Lake Lehmilampi, Eastern Finland
Salminen S et al.
> Ultra-High-Resolution Monitoring of the Catchment Response to Changing Weather Conditions Using Online Sediment Trapping
Johansson M et al.
> Grain-Size Distribution and Structural Characteristics of Varved Sediments from Lake Żabińskie (Northeastern Poland)
Żarczyński M et al.
> Using Annual Resolution Pollen Analysis to Synchronize Varve and Tree-Ring Records
Theuerkauf M et al.
This Special Issue is primarily a result of HOLSEA, an INQUA project within PAGES-INQUA PALSEA working group. The issue provides a standardized global synthesis of regional RSL data that resulted from the first ‘Geographic variability of HOLocene relative SEA level (HOLSEA)’ meetings in Mt Hood, Oregon (2016) and St Lucia, South Africa (2017). It provides RSL data from ten geographical regions including new databases from Atlantic Europe and the Russian Arctic and revised/expanded databases from Atlantic Canada, the British Isles, the Netherlands, the western Mediterranean, the Adriatic, Israel, Peninsular Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean. In total, the database derived from this special issue includes 5634 (5290 validated) index (n = 3202) and limiting points (n = 2088) that span from ∼20,000 years ago to present. This special issue marks the inception of a unified, spatially-comprehensive post-LGM global RSL database.
Available articles
> Inception of a global atlas of sea levels since the Last Glacial Maximum
> Statistical modeling of rates and trends in Holocene relative sea level
Atlantic Canada
> Postglacial relative sea-level histories along the eastern Canadian coastline
Russian Arctic
> A postglacial relative sea-level database for the Russian Arctic coast
British Isles
> Relative sea-level changes and crustal movements in Britain and Ireland since the Last Glacial Maximum
Northwest Europe
> Holocene sea-level database for the Rhine-Meuse Delta, The Netherlands: Implications for the pre-8.2 ka sea-level jump
Atlantic Europe
> Holocene sea-level database from the Atlantic coast of Europe
Mediterranean
> New relative sea-level insights into the isostatic history of the Western Mediterranean
> Tectonic influences on late Holocene relative sea levels from the central-eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia
> Can we detect centennial sea-level variations over the last three thousand years in Israeli archaeological records?
South Africa
> Sea-level change in southern Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum
Southeast Asia, India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives
> Holocene sea levels in Southeast Asia, Maldives, India and Sri Lanka: The SEAMIS database
> A below-the-present late Holocene relative sea level and the glacial isostatic adjustment during the Holocene in the Malay Peninsula
This special issue of 19 articles is an output of the PAGES-supported meeting "Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience Symposium: From Local to Global" held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in May 2016.
> Central and Eastern Europe Paleoscience: From Local to Continental Perspective [p.1-4]
Mîndrescu M
> Fluvial terrace formation and controls in the Lower River Danube, SE Romania [p.5-23]
Armaş I, Necea D & Miclăuş C
> Late Pleistocene climate of Poland in the mid-European context [p.24-39]
Marks L, Makos M, Szymanek M, Woronko B, Dzierżek J & Majecka A
> High-resolution proxy record of the environmental response to climatic variations during transition MIS3/MIS2 and MIS2 in Central Europe: The loess-paleosol sequence of Katymár brickyard (Hungary) [p.40-55]
Sümegi P, Molnár D, Gulyás S, Náfrádi K, Sümegia BP, Törőcsik T, Persaits G, Molnár M, Vandenberghe J & Zhou L
> Dagmar Cave (Czech Republic, Moravian Karst), a unique palaeontological site of the Cromerian Interglacial [p.56-69]
Musil R, Děkanovský O, Ivanov M, Doláková N, Mrázek J, Juřičková L & Lundberg J
> A 7000-year pollen and plant macrofossil record from the Mid-Russian Upland, European Russia: Vegetation history and human impact [p.70-79]
Novenko EY, Zyuganova IS, Volkova EM & Dyuzhova KV
> Middle Bronze Age humidity and temperature variations, and societal changes in East-Central Europe [p.80-95]
Demény A, Kern Z, Czuppon G, Németh A, Schöll-Barna G, Siklósy Z, Leél-Őssy SZ, Cook G, Serlegi G, Bajnóczi B, Sümegi P, Király A, Kiss V, Kulcsár G & Bondár M
> Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental changes recorded in deposits of the Bukovynka Cave (the East-Carpathian foreland, Ukraine) [p.96-107]
Gerasimenko N, Ridush B & Avdeyenko Y
> Radiocarbon dated malacological records of two Late Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences from SW-Hungary: Paleoecological inferences [p.108-117]
Molnár D, Sümegi P, Fekete I, Makó L & Sümegi BP
> Late Holocene vegetation dynamics and human impact in the catchment basin of the Upper Oka River (Mid-Russian Uplands): A case study from the Orlovskoye Polesye National Park [p.118-127]
Rudenko OV, Volkova EM, Babeshko KV, Tsyganov AN, Mazei YA, Novenko EY
> Phytolith evidence of cereal processing in the Danube Delta during the Chalcolithic period [p.128-138]
Danu M, Messager E, Carozza J-M, Carozza L, Bouby L, Philibert S, Anderson P, Burens A & Micu C
> Neolithic to modern period palaeogeographic transformations in southern Danube delta and their impact on human settlements in the Enisala-Babadag region [p.139-152]
Preoteasa L, Vespremeanu-Stroe A, Panaiotu C, Rotaru S, Țuțuianu L, Sava T, Bîrzescu I, Dimofte D, Sava G, Mirea DA & Ailincăi S
> Small glaciers in Pirin (Bulgaria) and Durmitor (Montenegro) as glacio-karstic features. Similarities and differences in their recent behaviour [p.153-170]
Gachev E & Mitkov
> Climate change effect on groundwater resources in South East Europe during 21st century [p.171-180]
Nistor M-M
> Twentieth-century hydromorphological degradation of Polish Carpathian rivers [p.181-194]
Hajdukiewicz H, Wyżga B & Zawiejska J
> The cyclical nature of hydrological regime of a mountain and upland river in the upper Vistula catchment in the multi-year period of 1984–2012: A potential tool for paleohydrology analysis [p.195-201]
Wałęga A, Malik N, Radecki-Pawlik A & Plesiński K
> Mid-Pleistocene and Holocene demographic fluctuation of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in the Carpathian Mountains and the Pannonian Basin: Signs of historical expansions and contractions [p.202-213]
Tóth EG, Bede-Fazekas A, Vendramin GG, Bagnoli F & Höhn M
> Climate change effect on groundwater resources in Emilia-Romagna region: An improved assessment through NISTOR-CEGW method [p.214-228]
Nistor M-M & Mîndrescu M
This Special Issue is a product of PAGES' SISAL working group.
Editorial
> SISAL: Bringing Added Value to Speleothem Research
Laia Comas-Bru and Sandy P. Harrison
Articles
> The Potential of Speleothems from Western Europe as Recorders of Regional Climate: A Critical Assessment of the SISAL Database
Franziska A. Lechleitner, Sahar Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, Andrea Columbu, Laia Comas-Bru, Inga Labuhn, Carlos Pérez-Mejías and Kira Rehfeld
> The Indian Summer Monsoon from a Speleothem δ18O Perspective—A Review
Nikita Kaushal, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Ashish Sinha, Vinod C. Tewari, Syed Masood Ahmad, Max Berkelhammer, Shraddha Band, Madhusudan Yadava, Rengaswamy Ramesh and Gideon M. Henderson
> A Window into Africa’s Past Hydroclimates: The SISAL_v1 Database Contribution
Kerstin Braun, Carole Nehme, Robyn Pickering, Mike Rogerson and Nick Scroxton
> Speleothem Paleoclimatology for the Caribbean, Central America, and North America
Jessica L. Oster, Sophie F. Warken, Natasha Sekhon, Monica M. Arienzo and Matthew Lachniet
> Late Quaternary Variations in the South American Monsoon System as Inferred by Speleothems—New Perspectives using the SISAL Database
Michael Deininger, Brittany Marie Ward, Valdir F. Novello and Francisco W. Cruz
> The Asian Summer Monsoon: Teleconnections and Forcing Mechanisms—A Review from Chinese Speleothem δ18O Records
Haiwei Zhang, Yassine Ait Brahim, Hanying Li, Jingyao Zhao, Gayatri Kathayat, Ye Tian, Jonathan Baker, Jian Wang, Fan Zhang, Youfeng Ning, R. Lawrence Edwards and Hai Cheng
> Speleothems from the Middle East: An Example of Water Limited Environments in the SISAL Database
Yuval Burstyn, Belen Martrat, Jordi F. Lopez, Eneko Iriarte, Matthew J. Jacobson, Mahjoor Ahmad Lone and Michael Deininger
> Speleothem Records from the Eastern Part of Europe and Turkey—Discussion on Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes
Zoltán Kern, Attila Demény, Aurel Perşoiu and István Gábor Hatvani
Other
> Response to Comments by Daniel Gebregiorgis et al. "A Brief Commentary on the Interpretation of Chinese Speleothem δ18O Records as Summer Monsoon Intensity Tracers"
Haiwei Zhang, Hai Cheng, Jonathan Baker and Gayatri Kathayat
> A Brief Commentary on the Interpretation of Chinese Speleothem δ18O Records as Summer Monsoon Intensity Tracers
Daniel Gebregiorgis, Steven C. Clemens, Ed C. Hathorne, Liviu Giosan, Kaustubh Thirumalai and Martin Frank
In this special issue, PAGES' GPWG2 working group present nine original manuscripts focusing on paleofire studies that contribute to our understanding of natural and anthropogenic causes of fire through time. It is global in scope, with manuscripts that explore local-to-regional fire histories from five continents: Africa (Kenya), Asia (China), Europe (Romania and Ireland), Southern America (Bolivia) and Northern America (western Canada and the U.S. Rocky Mountains).
Articles
The Fire-Human-Climate-Vegetation Nexus: the role of fire shaping past and present landscapes [p.1-2]
Power MJ & Vannière B
Global Modern Charcoal Dataset (GMCD): A tool for exploring proxy-fire linkages and spatial patterns of biomass burning [p.3-17]
Hawthorne D, Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Aleman JC, Blarquez O, Colombaroli D, Daniau A-L, Marlon JR, Power M, Vannière B, Han Y, Hantson S, Kehrwald N, Magi B, Yue X, Carcaillet C, Marchant R, Ogunkoya A, Githumbi EN & Muriuki RM
The linkages with fires, vegetation composition and human activity in response to climate changes in the Chinese Loess Plateau during the Holocene [p.18-29]
Tan Z, Han Y, Cao J, Huang CC, Mao L, Liu Z & An Z
Holocene fire and forest histories in relation to climate change and agriculture development in southeastern China [p.30-40]
Ma T, Zheng Z, Man M, Dong X, Li J & Huang K
Exploring the influence of local controls on fire activity using multiple charcoal records from northern Romanian Carpathians [p.41-57]
Florescu G, Vannière B & Feurdean A
Investigating patterns of wildfire in Ireland and their correlation with regional and global trends in fire history [p.58-66]
Hawthorne D & Mitchell FJG
Determinants of savanna-fire dynamics in the eastern Lake Victoria catchment (western Kenya) during the last 1200 years [p.67-80]
Colombaroli D, van der Plas G, Rucina S & Verschuren D
Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon [p.81-94]
Maezumi SY, Whitney BS, Mayle FE, de Souza JG & Iriarte J
Forest vegetation change and disturbance interactions over the past 7500 years at Sasquatch Lake, Columbia Mountains, western Canada [p.95-106]
Courtney Mustaphi CJ & Pisaric MFJ
A 1,500-year synthesis of wildfire activity stratified by elevation from the U.S. Rocky Mountains [p.107-119]
Carter VA, Power MJ, Lundeen ZJ, Morris JL, Petersen KL, Brunelle A, Anderson RS, Shinker JJ, Turney L, Koll R & Bartlein PJ
The special issue brings together the most recent work from participants of PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting, which was held from 7-9 May 2017 in Morillo de Tou, Spain. The papers address the processes of past climatic and environmental change, the long-term interactions between past climate conditions, environmental changes and human activities, and the abrupt changes in the Earth system. They involve modeling and reconstructions from proxy data and present new developments to improve our knowledge of past global changes.
Articles
> Early Pliocene vegetation and hydrology changes in western equatorial South America
> Climate evolution across the Mid-Brunhes Transition
Special issue jointly organized between Climate of the Past and Geoscientific Model Development. Papers co-authored by many active PAGES working group members, acknowledging various PAGES working groups.
> Development and testing scenarios for implementing land use and land cover changes during the Holocene in Earth system model experiments [p.805–824]
Harrison SP et al.
> The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments [p.4035]
Kageyama M et al.
> The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 past1000 simulations [p.4005]
Jungclaus JH et al.
> The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 2: Two interglacials, scientific objective and experimental design for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations [p.3979]
Otto-Bliesner BL et al.
The primary aim of this special issue as part of the PALeo constraints on SEA level rise 2 (PALSEA2) Past Global Changes (PAGES) working group and international focus group of the Coastal and Marine Processes commission in International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) is to use the information contained in the geological record to improve the accuracy of sea-level projections for the coming centuries to millennia. The focus is on documenting and synthesizing data on rates, sources, and budgets of sea-level variability during Quaternary/Pliocene warm periods, including the transition into and out of such periods, and assess the ability of models to simulate these observations.
Published papers
> Balancing the last glacial maximum (LGM) sea-level budget
> Glacial isostatic adjustment along the Pacific coast of central North America
> Holocene sea-level history of the northern coast of South China Sea
> Relative sea-level change during the Last Interglacial as recorded in Bahamian fossil reefs
> Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers
The 2013 PAGES 2k consortium reconstructions have shown clear regional expressions of temperature variability at the multi-decadal to century scale, whereas a long-term cooling trend prior to the 20th century was evident globally. These findings pointed to the necessity of understanding regional differences for a truly global view. This special issue intends to assemble papers proceeding from the coordinated efforts of the PAGES 2k Network to refine temperature reconstructions and create a history of regional precipitation changes.
Articles
> Introduction to the Special Issue on Climate of the Past 2000 Years: Global and Regional Syntheses
> Low-resolution Australasian palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years
> Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years
> Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years
> North American regional climate reconstruction from ground surface temperature histories
> Multi-proxy reconstructions of May–September precipitation field in China over the past 500 years
> Comparing proxy and model estimates of hydroclimate variability and change over the Common Era
> Climate variability in the subarctic area for the last 2 millennia
> Technical note: Open-paleo-data implementation pilot – the PAGES 2k special issue