Special issues
The research articles published in this volume reflect the contributions presented at the CBW2014 conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 6-9 November 2014. The event was financially endorsed by Past Global Changes.
> Recent contributions and prospects for climatic variability studies in Central and Eastern Europe [p.1]
Mindrescu M & Veres D
> Dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating of subfossil conifer logs from a peat bog, Maramureş Mts, Romania [p.6]
Árvai M, Popa I, Mîndrescu M, Nagya B & Kern Z
> Stable isotope data from loess malacofauna: Evidence for climate changes in the Pannonian Basin during the Late Pleistocene [p.15]
Banak A, Mandic O, Sprovieri M, Lirer F & Pavelić D
> Recrystallization-induced oxygen isotope changes in inclusion-hosted water of speleothems – Paleoclimatological implications [p.25]
Demény A, Czuppon G, Kern Z, Leél-Őssy S, Németh A, Szabó M, Tóth M, Wu C-C, Shen C-C, Molnár M, Németh T, Németh P & Óvári M
> Small glaciers on the Balkan Peninsula: State and changes in the last several years [p.33]
Gachev E, Stoyanov K & Gikov A
> Stratigraphy of alluvia and phases of the Holocene floods in the valleys of the Eastern Carpathians foreland [p.55]
Gębica P, Jacyszyn A, Krąpiec M, Budek A, Czumak N, Starkel L, Andrejczuk W & Ridush B
> Dendroclimatic reconstruction of late summer temperatures from upper treeline sites in Greater Caucasus, Russia [p.67]
Holobâcă I-H, Pop O & Petrea D
> Former plateau ice fields in the Godeanu Mountains, Southern Carpathians: First evidence of glaciated peneplains in the Carpathians [p.74]
Ignéczi A & Nagy B
> Magura Cave, Bulgaria: A multidisciplinary study of Late Pleistocene human palaeoenvironment in the Balkans [p.86]
Ivanova S, Gurova M, Spassov N, Hristova L, Tzankov N, Popov V, Marinova E, Makedonska J, Smith V, Ottoni C & Lewis M
> Natural proxy records of temperature- and hydroclimate variability with annual resolution from the Northern Balkan–Carpathian region for the past millennium – Review & recalibration [p.109]
Kern Z, Németh A, Horoszné Gulyás M, Popa I, Levanič T & Hatvani IG
> Late Glacial and Holocene paleoenvironmental records in the Tatra Mountains, East-Central Europe, based on lake, peat bog and colluvial sedimentary data: A summary review [p.126]
Kłapyta P, Zasadni J, Pociask-Karteczka J, Gajda A & Franczak P
> Subfossil bog-pine chronologies from The Puścizna Wielka raised bog, Orawa Basin, southern Poland [p.145]
Krąpiec M & Szychowska-Krąpiec E
> Climate variability in the mountain river valleys of the Ukrainian Carpathians [p.154]
Kynal O & Kholiavchuk D
> Recent morphodynamics of alpine lakes in Southern Carpathian Mountains using high-resolution optical imagery [p.164]
Necsoiu M, Mîndrescu M, Onaca A & Wigginton S
> Archaeological evidence for Holocene landslide activity in the Eastern Carpathian lowland [p.175]
Niculiţă M, Ciprian Mărgărint M & Santangelo M
> Holocene sediment dynamics in the environs of the fortification enclosure of Corneşti-Iarcuri in the Romanian Banat [p.190]
Nykamp M, Hoelzmann P, Heeb BS, Szentmiklosi A & Schütt B
> Settlement patterns as indicators of water level rising? Case study on the wetlands of the Great Hungarian Plain [p.204]
Pinke Z, Ferenczi L, Gábris G & Nagy B
> Revised deglaciation history of the Pietrele–Stânişoara glacial complex, Retezat Mts, Southern Carpathians, Romania [p.216]
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Z, Kern Z, Urdea P, Braucher R, Madarász B, Schimmelpfennig I & ASTER Team
> A century-long snow avalanche chronology reconstructed from tree-rings in Parâng Mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania) [p.230]
Traian Pop O, Gavrilă I-G, Roşian G, Meseşan F, Decaulne A, Horea Holobâcă I & Anghel T
> Permafrost or seasonal frost? A review of paleoclimate proxies of the last glacial cycle in the East Central European lowlands [p.241]
Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger Z & Kern Z
> Mid-Holocene vegetation development and herding-related interferences in the Carpathian region [p.253]
Schumacher M, Schier W & Schütt B
> Formation of Danube delta beach ridge plains and signatures in morphology [p.268]
Vespremeanu-Stroe A, Preoteasa L, Zăinescu F, Rotaru S, Croitoru L & Timar-Gabor A
> Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past snow avalanche events in Bâlea glacial valley–Făgăraş massif (Southern Carpathians), Romanian Carpathians [p.286]
Voiculescu M, Onaca A & Chiroiu P
> Development of modern forest zones in the Beskid Niski Mts. and adjacent area (Western Carpathians) in the late Holocene: A palaeobotanical perspective [p.303]
Wacnik A, Nalepka D, Granoszewski W, Walanus A, Madeyska E, Cywa K, Szczepanek K & Cieślak E
> Changes in precipitation extremes in Romania [p.325]
Croitoru A-E, Piticar A & Burada DC
> Altitudinal changes of summer air temperature trends in the Romanian Carpathians based on serially correlated models [p.336]
Croitoru A-E, Drignei D, Burada DC, Dragotă CS & Imecs Z
> Multi-thread rivers in the Polish Carpathians: Occurrence, decline and possibilities of restoration [p.344]
Wyżga B, Zawiejska J & Hajdukiewicz H
The special issue includes three papers that resulted from the Arctic Holocene Transitions project, which is a PAGES endorsed group. Author Darrell Kaufman worked on the AHT project while a visiting scientist at PAGES IPO.
> PAST Gateways (Palaeo-Arctic Spatial and Temporal Gateways): Introduction and overview [p.1]
Ó Cofaigh C, Briner JP, Kirchner N, Lucchi RG, Meyer H & Kaufman DS
> Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence [p.312]
Kaufman DS, Axford YL, Henderson ACG, McKay NP, Oswald WW, Saenger C, Anderson RS, Bailey HL, Clegg B, Gajewski K, Hu FS, Jones MC, Massa C, Routson CC, Werner A, Wooller MJ & Yu Z
> Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland [p.340]
Briner JP, McKay NP, Axford Y, Bennike O, Bradley RS, de Vernal A, Fisher D, Francus P, Fréchette B, Gajewski K, Jennings A, Kaufman DS, Miller G, Rouston C & Wagner B
> North Atlantic-Fennoscandian Holocene climate trends and mechanisms [p.365]
Sejrup HP, Seppä H, McKay NP, Kaufman DS, Geirsdóttir A, de Vernal A, Renssen H, Husum K, Jennings A & Andrews JT
This publication from the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research is the outcome of the International Conference on Volcanoes, Climate, and Society: Bicentenary of the great Tambora eruption, held in Bern, April 2015, which was supported by PAGES.
This special issue is an outcome of the PAGES-sponsored 2013 workshop ‘Ramsar Wetlands: Understanding Change in Ecological Character’ held at Queenscliff, Australia.
> Editorial: Understanding change in the ecological character of wetlands [p.683]
Gell PA & Finlayson CM
> Editorial: Understanding change in the ecological character of internationally important wetlands [p.658]
Davidson NC
> Role of palaeoecology in describing the ecological character of wetlands [p.p.687]
Finlayson CM, Clarke SJ, Davidson NC & Gell P
> Palaeoecology to inform wetland conservation and management: some experiences and prospects [p.695]
Clarke SJ & Lynch AJJ
> Using palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental records to guide restoration, conservation and adaptive management of Ramsar freshwater wetlands: lessons from the Everglades, USA [p.707]
Riedinger-Whitmore MA
> The Gippsland Lakes: management challenges posed by long-term environmental change [p.721]
Boon PI, Cook P & Woodland R
> Implications of environmental trajectories for Limits of Acceptable Change: a case study of the Riverland Ramsar site, South Australia [p.738]
Newall PR, Lloyd LN, Gell PA & Walker KF
> High-resolution, multiproxy palaeoenvironmental changes recorded from Two Mile Lake, southern Western Australia: implications for Ramsar-listed playa sites [p.748]
Gouramanis C, De Deckker P, Wilkins D & Dodson J
> A Ramsar-wetland in suburbia: wetland management in an urbanised, industrialised area [p.771]
Kermode SJ, Heijnis H, Wong H, Zawadzki A, Gadd P & Permana A
> Wandering wetlands: spatial patterns of historical channel and floodplain change in the Ramsar-listed Macquarie Marshes, Australia [p.782]
Ralph TJ, Hesse PP & Kobayashi T
> Using sedimentary diatoms to identify reference conditions and historical variability in shallow lake ecosystems in the Yangtze floodplain [p.803]
Dong X, Yang X, Chen X, Liu Q, Yao M, Wang R & Xu M
> Patterned fen formation and development from the Great Sandy Region, south-east Queensland, Australia [p.816]
Moss P, Tibby J, Shapland F, Fairfax R, Stewart P, Barr C, Petherick L, Gontz A & Sloss C
> Assessing wetland degradation and loss of ecosystem services in the Niger Delta, Nigeria [p.828]
Ayanlade A & Proske U
> Industrial past, urban future: using palaeo-studies to determine the industrial legacy of the Barwon Estuary, Victoria, Australia [p.837]
Reeves JM, Gell PA, Reichman SM, Trewarn AJ & Zawadzki A
> Socio-ecological aspects of sustaining Ramsar wetlands in three biodiverse developing countries [p.850]
Lynch AJJ, Kalumanga E & Ospina GA
> MF16075Understanding change in the ecological character of Ramsar wetlands: perspectives from a deeper time – synthesis [p.869]
Gell PA, Finlayson CM & Davidson NC
This special issue emerged as a result of a workshop at Costa Navarino and the Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO), Greece, in April 2014, which addressed Mediterranean Holocene climate and human societies. The workshop was co-sponsored by IGBP/PAGES.
> Mediterranean Holocene climate, environment and human societies [p.1]
Holmgren K, Gogou A, Izdebski A, Luterbacher J, Sicre M-A & Xoplaki E
> Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean [p.5]
Izdebski A, Holmgren K, Weiberg E, Stocker SR, Büntgen U, Florenzano A, Gogou A, Leroy SAG, Luterbacher J, Martrat B, Masi A, Mercuri AM, Montagna P, Sadori, Schneider A, Sicre MA, Triantaphyllou M & Xoplaki E
> Evidence of resilience to past climate change in Southwest Asia: Early farming communities and the 9.2 and 8.2 ka events [p.23]
Floh P, Fleitmann D, Matthews R, Matthews W & Black S
> The socio-environmental history of the Peloponnese during the Holocene: Towards an integrated understanding of the past [p.40]
Weiberg E, Unkel I, Kouli K, Holmgren K, Avramidis P, Bonnier A, Dibble F, Finné M, Izdebski A, Katrantsiotis C, Stocker SD, Andwinge M, Baika K, Boyd M & Heymann C
> A fluvial record of the mid-Holocene rapid climatic changes in the middle Rhone valley (Espeluche-Lalo, France) and of their impact on Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies [p.66]
Berger J-F, Delhon C, Magnin F, Bonté S, Peyric D, Thiébault S, Guilbert R & Beeching A
> Holocene evolution of Lake Shkodra: Multidisciplinary evidence for diachronic landscape change in northern Albania [p.85]
Mazzini I, Gliozzi E, Galaty M, Bejko L, Sadori L, Soulié-Märsche I, Koçi R, Van Welden A & Bushati S
> Climatic changes and social transformations in the Near East and North Africa during the ‘long’ 4th millennium BC: A comparative study of environmental and archaeological evidence [p.96]
Clarke J, Brooks N, Banning EB, Bar-Matthews M, Campbell S, Clare L, Cremaschi M, di Lernia S, Drake N, Gallinaro M, Manning S, Nicoll K, Philip G, Rosen S, Schoop U-D, Tafuri MA, Weninger B & Zerboni A
> Comparative modeling of Bronze Age land use in the Malatya Plain (Turkey) [p.122]
Arikan B, Balossi Restelli F & Masi A
> Human–climate interactions in the central Mediterranean region during the last millennia: The laminated record of Lake Butrint (Albania) [p.134]
Morellón M, Anselmetti FS, Ariztegui D, Brushulli B, Sinopoli G, Wagner B, Sadori L, Gilli A & Pambuku A
> Climate change versus land management in the Po Plain (Northern Italy) during the Bronze Age: New insights from the VP/VG sequence of the Terramara Santa Rosa di Poviglio [p.153]
Cremaschi M, Mercuri AM, Torri P, Florenzano A, Pizzi C, Marchesini M & Zerboni A
> Climate, environment and society in southern Italy during the last 2000 years. A review of the environmental, historical and archaeological evidence [p.173]
Sadori L, Giraudi C, Masi A, Magny M, Ortu E, Zanchetta G & Izdebski A
> The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity [p.189]
Izdebski A, Pickett J, Roberts N & Waliszewski T
> Climate variability and socio-environmental changes in the northern Aegean (NE Mediterranean) during the last 1500 years [p.209]
Gogou A, Triantaphyllou M, Xoplaki E, Izdebski A, Parinos C, Dimiza M, Bouloubassi I, Luterbacher J, Kouli K, Martrat B, Toreti A, Fleitmann D, Rousakis G, Kaberi H, Athanasiou M & Lykousis V
> The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change [p.229]
Xoplaki E, Fleitmann D, Luterbacher J, Wagner S, Haldon JF, Zorita E, Telelis I, Toreti A & Izdebski A
This special issue contains products emerging from the PAGES-supported meeting "Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses in tropical South America - LaAcer I" held 28 November to 1 December 2012 in Bogota, Colombia.
> Millennial-scale vegetation changes in the tropical Andes using ecological grouping and ordination methods [p.697]
Urrego DH, Hooghiemstra H, Rama-Corredor O, Martrat B, Grimalt JO, Thompson L, Bush MB, González-Carranza Z, Hanselman J, Valencia B & Velásquez-Ruiz C
> Geochronological database and classification system for age uncertainties in Neotropical pollen records [p.387]
Flantua SGA, Blaauw M & Hooghiemstra H
> Parallelisms between sea surface temperature changes in the western tropical Atlantic (Guiana Basin) and high latitude climate signals over the last 140 000 years [p.1297]
Rama-Corredor O, Martrat B, Grimalt JO, López-Otalvaro GE, Flores JA & Sierro F
> Thermal evolution of the western South Atlantic and the adjacent continent during Termination 1 [p.915]
Chiessi CM, Mulitza S, Mollenhauer G, Silva JB, Groeneveld J & Prange M
> Effects of past climate variability on fire and vegetation in the cerrãdo savanna of the Huanchaca Mesetta, NE Bolivia [p.835]
Maezumi SY, Power MJ, Mayle FE, McLauchlan KK & Iriarte J
This special issue of Marine and Freshwater Research contains papers emerging from the PAGES-supported meeting: "Ramsar Wetlands: Detecting Change in Ecological Character" held in Queenscliff, Australia from 6-8 November 2013.
> Determining change in aquatic ecosystems [p.i]
Finlayson CM
> Long-term ecological trends of flow-dependent ecosystems in a major regulated river basin [p.957]
Colloff MJ, Caley P, Saintilan N, Pollino CA & Crossman ND
> A commentary on 'Long-term ecological trends of flow-dependent ecosystems in a major regulated river basin', by Matthew J. Colloff, Peter Caley, Neil Saintilan, Carmel A. Pollino and Neville D. Crossman [p.970]
Kingsford RT, MacNally R, King A, Walker KF, Bino G, Thompson R, Wassens S & Humphries P
> New opportunities for conservation of a threatened biogenic habitat: a worldwide assessment of knowledge on bivalve-reef representation in marine and coastal Ramsar Sites [p.981]
Kasoar T, zu Ermgassen PSE, Carranza A, Hancock B & Spalding M
> Effects of gear type, entrance size and soak time on trap efficiency for freshwater crayfish Cherax destructor and C. albidus [p.989]
Brown P, Hunt TL & Giri K
> Reproductive capacity of a marine species (Octopus tetricus) within a recent range extension area [p.999]
Ramos JE, Pecl GT, Semmens JM, Strugnell JM, Leon RI & Moltschaniwskyj
> Importance of predation and viral lysis for bacterial mortality in a tropical western Indian coral-reef ecosystem (Toliara, Madagascar) [p.1009]
Bouvy M, Got P, Bettarel Y, Bouvier T, Care C, Roques C, Rodier M, Lope JC & Arfi R
> Range and habitat associations of the native macroalga Caulerpa filiformis in New South Wales, Australia [p.1018]
Glasby TM, Gibson PT, West G, Davies P & Voerman S
> Electroreception in the obligate freshwater stingray, Potamotrygon motoro [p.1027]
Harris LL, Bedore CN & Kajiura SM
> Glassfish switch feeding from thalassinid larvae to crab zoeae after tidal inundation of saltmarsh [p.1037]
McPfee JJ, Freewater P, Gladstone W, Platell ME & Schreider MJ
> Significant genetic structure despite high vagility revealed through mitochondrial phylogeography of an Australian freshwater turtle (Chelodina longicollis) [p.1045]
Hodges K, Donnellan S & Georges A
> Low survival rather than breeding success explains little penguin population decline on Granite Island [p.1057]
Colobelli-Negrel D
> Phylogenetic diversity within the endemic brown trout Duero lineage: implications for conservation and management [p.1066]
Vera M, Garcia-Marin, Martinez P & Bouza C
This special issue titled "Climate change and human impact in Central and South America over the last 2000 years", is a contribution to the LOTRED-SA Working Group. It emerged from the PAGES-supported meeting: "LOTRED-SA 3rd Symposium: Climate change and human impact in Central and South America over the last 2000 years: Oberservations and models" held in Medellín, Colombia from 9-12 July 2014.
> A high-altitude peatland record of environmental changes in the NW Argentine Andes (24 ° S) over the last 2100 years [p.1165]
Schittek K, Kock ST, Lücke A, Hense J, Ohlendorf C, Kulemeyer JJ, Lupo LC & Schäbitz F
> Terrigenous material supply to the Peruvian central continental shelf (Pisco, 14° S) during the last 1000 years: paleoclimatic implications [p.787]
Briceño-Zuluaga FJ, Sifeddine A, Caquineau S, Cardich S, Salvatteci R, Gutierrez D, Ortlieb L, Velazco F, Boucher H & Machado C
> Variability in terrigenous sediment supply offshore of the Río de la Plata (Uruguay) recording the continental climatic history over the past 1200 years [p.623]
Perez L, García-Rodríguez F & Hanebuth TJJ
> Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records [p.483]
Flantua SGA, Hooghiemstra H, Vuille M, Behling H, Carson JF, Gosling WD, Hoyos I, Ledru MP, Montoya E, Mayle F, Maldonado A, Rull V, Tonello MS, Whitney BS & González-Arango C
> Climatic variability and human impact during the last 2000 years in western Mesoamerica: evidence of late Classic (AD 600–900) and Little Ice Age drought events [p.1239]
Rodríguez-Ramírez A, Caballero M, Roy P, Ortega B, Vázquez-Castro G & Lozano-García S
> Multi-century lake area changes in the Southern Altiplano: a tree-ring-based reconstruction [p.1139]
Morales MS, Carilla J, Grau HR & Villalba R
This is a special issue titled "Eastern African Quaternary Research Association, 4th conference", comprising six articles (plus the introduction). This special issue emerged from the PAGES-supported meeting: ‘Eastern African Quaternary Climate Change and Variability: A View from the Highlands’ held in Nanyuki, Kenya from 23-27 July 2013.
> Equatorial eastern Africa: Quaternary climate change and variability [p.1]
Ogola CA, Asrat A, Rucina S & Ichumbaki EB
> The “big bang” in East African Quaternary studies [p.3]
Posnansky M
> Observed and simulated changes in the water balance components over Malawi, during 1971–2000 [p.7]
Ngongondo C, Xub CY, Tallaksen LM & Alemaw B
> Palaeoclimates, plasticity, and the early dispersal of Homo sapiens [p.17]
Grove M
> Spotted, striped or brown? Taphonomic studies at dens of extant hyaenas in eastern and southern Africa [p.38]
Fourvel J-B, Fosse P & Avery G
> Reconstruction of ancient palm vegetation landscapes using a phytolith approach [p.51]
Albert RM, Bamford MK & Esteban I
> The impact of paleoclimate, geologic history, and human influence on the evolution of East African cichlids [p.67]
Twesigye CK
A special issue comprising 8 articles and an introduction. This special issue is a contribution to PAGES' Focus 4 (human–climate–ecosystem interactions) theme and specifically the Land Use and Cover, Soil and Sediment, and Water Themes which ran up until 2014. The volume emerged from the PAGES-supported meeting: ‘Towards a more accurate quantification of human–environment interactions in the past’ held in Leuven, Belgium from 3–7 February 2014.
> Quantification of human–environment interactions in the past [p.1]
Verstraeten G
> Natural and human-induced prehistoric and historical soil erosion and landscape development in Southwestern Tennessee, USA [p.6]
Dotterweich M, Ivester AH, Hanson PR, Larsen D & Dye DH
> Estimating fluxes in anthropogenic lead using alluvial soil mass-balance geochemistry, geochronology and archaeology in eastern USA [p.25]
Stinchcomb GE, Messner TC, Stewart RM & Driese SG
> Assessing change in floodplain wetland condition in the Murray Darling Basin, Australia [p.39]
Gell P & Reid M
> From natural to human-dominated floodplain geoecology – A Holocene perspective for the Dijle catchment, Belgium [p.46]
Broothaerts N, Verstraeten G, Kasse C, Bohncke S, Notebaert B & Vandenberghe J
> Quantifying the anthropogenic forcing on soil erosion during the Iron Age and Roman Period in southeastern France [p.59]
Notebaert B & Berger J-F
> Using palaeo-environmental proxies to reconstruct natural and anthropogenic controls on sedimentation rates, Tell es-Safi/Gath, eastern Mediterranean [p.70]
Ackermann O, Greenbaum N, Ayalon A, Bar-Matthews M, Boaretto E, Bruins HJ, Cabanes D, Horwitz LK, Neumann FH, Porat N, Weiss E & Maeir AM
> Human impact on low-land Vellayani Lake, south India: A record since 3000 yrs BP [p.83]
Veena MP, Achyuthan H, Eastoe C & Farooqui A
> The glade effect: Vegetation openness and structure and their influences on arboreal pollen production and the reconstruction of anthropogenic forest opening [p.92]
Feeser I & Dörfler W