Special issues
This volume comprises eight papers from the symposium - Climate Change: The Karst Record (IV) held from the 26-29 May 2006 in Baile Herculane, Romania, and supported by PAGES.
> Archives of climate and environmental change in Karst [p.1]
Onac BP & Constantin S
> Hyperspectral imaging of speleothems [p.5]
Jex C, Claridge E, Baker A & Smith C
> Investigation of the stable isotope fractionation in speleothems with laboratory experiments [p.15]
Wiedner E, Scholz D, Mangini A, Polag D, Mühlinghaus C & Segl M
> A stepwise screening system to select storm-sensitive stalagmites: Taking a targeted approach to speleothem sampling methodology [p.25]
Frappier AB
> Α high-resolution late Holocene speleothem record from Kaite Cave, northern Spain: δ18O variability and possible causes [p.40]
Domínguez-Villar D, Wang X, Cheng H, Martín-Chivelet J & Edwards RL
> Speleothem stable isotope records interpreted within a multi-proxy framework and implications for New Zealand palaeoclimate reconstruction [p.52]
Lorrey A, Williams P, Salinger J, Martin T, Palmer J, Fowler A, Zhao J-x & Neil H
> Paleoclimate reconstruction derived from speleothem strontium and δ13C in Central Florida [p.76]
Beynen PEv, Soto L & Pace-Graczyk K
> Cryogenic carbonates in cave environments: A review [p.84]
Žák K, Onac BP & Perşoiu A
> Dated Paleontological cave sites of Central Europe from Late Middle Pleistocene to early Upper Pleistocene (OIS 5 to OIS 8) [p.97]
Döppes D, Kempe S & Rosendahl W
Special issue from the PAGES symposium "Reconstructing Past Regional Climate Variations in South America over the late Holocene", held 4-7 October 2006, in Mendoza, Argentina.
> Long-term multi-proxy climate reconstructions and dynamics in South America (LOTRED-SA): State of the art and perspectives [p.175]
Villalba R, Grosjean M & Kiefer T
> Present-day South American climate [p.180]
Garreaud RD, Vuille M, Compagnucci R & Marengo J
> Documentary sources from South America: Potential for climate reconstruction [p.196]
Prieto MdR & Herrera RG
> Dendroclimatological reconstructions in South America: A review [p.210]
Boninsegna JA, Argollo J, Aravena JC, Barichivich J, Christie D, Ferrero ME, Lara A, Quesne CL, Luckman BH, Masiokas M, Morales M, Oliveira JM, Roig F, Srur A & Villalba R
> Climate variability during the last 1000 years inferred from Andean ice cores: A review of methodology and recent results [p.229]
Vimeux F, Ginot P, Schwikowski M, Vuille M, Hoffmann G, Thompson LG & Schotterer U
> Glacier fluctuations in extratropical South America during the past 1000 years [p.242]
Masiokas MH, Rivera A, Espizua LE, Villalba R, Delgado S & Aravena JC
> Fluctuations of glaciers in the tropical Andes over the last millennium and palaeoclimatic implications: A review [p.269]
Jomelli V, Favier V, Rabatel A, Brunstein D, Hoffmann G & Francou B
> Reviewing human–environment interactions in arid regions of southern South America during the past 3000 years [p.283]
Morales M, Barberena R, Belardi JB, Borrero L, Cortegoso V, Durán V, Guerci A, Goñi R, Gil A, Neme G, Yacobaccio H & Zárate M
> Spatio-temporal variations in Polylepis tarapacana radial growth across the Bolivian Altiplano during the 20th century [p.296]
Solíz C, Villalba R, Argollo J, Morales MS, Christie DA, Moya J & Pacajes J
> El Niño-Southern Oscillation signal in the world's highest-elevation tree-ring chronologies from the Altiplano, Central Andes [p.309]
Christie DA, Lara A, Barichivich J, Villalba R, Morales MS & Cuq E
> Climate signals in high elevation tree-rings from the semiarid Andes of north-central Chile: Responses to regional and large-scale variability [p.320]
Barichivich J, Sauchyn DJ & Lara A
> Long-term glacier variations in the Central Andes of Argentina and Chile, inferred from historical records and tree-ring reconstructed precipitation [p.334]
Quesne CL, Acuña C, Boninsegna JA, Rivera A & Barichivich J
> The Little Ice Age glacier advance in the Central Andes (35°S), Argentina [p.345]
Espizua LE & Pitte P
> Little Ice Age fluctuations of small glaciers in the Monte Fitz Roy and Lago del Desierto areas, south Patagonian Andes, Argentina [p.351]
Masiokas MH, Luckman BH, Villalba R, Delgado S, Skvarca P & Ripalta A
> Palaeoenvironmental changes during the last 1600 years inferred from the sediment record of a cirque lake in southern Patagonia (Laguna Las Vizcachas, Argentina) [p.363]
Fey M, Korr C, Maidana NI, Carrevedo ML, Corbella H, Dietrich S, Haberzettl T, Kuhn G, Lücke A, Mayr C, Ohlendorf C, Paez MM, Quintana FA, Schäbitz F & Zolitschka B
This special issue provides an overview of research activities concerning past to recent changes in the timing of glacier changes and their linkages to climate. The contributions are based on presentations from two glacier–climate–cryosphere sessions co-organized by the EU-funded GLOCHAMORE project (Global Change in Mountain Regions), PAGES, and the WGMS (World Glacier Monitoring Service) at the Open Science Conference on “Global Change in Mountain Regions” organized by the MRI (Mountain Research Initiative) and held from 2-6 October 2005 in Perth, Scotland, UK.
> Historical and Holocene glacier–climate variations: General concepts and overview [p.1]
Solomina O, Haeberli W, Kull C & Wiles G
> Norwegian mountain glaciers in the past, present and future [p.10]
Nesje A, Bakke J, Dahl SO, Lie Ø & Matthews JA
> Strength and spatial patterns of the Holocene wintertime westerlies in the NE Atlantic region [p.28]
Bakke J, Lie Ø, Dahl SO, Nesje A & Bjune AE
> 19th century glacier representations and fluctuations in the central and western European Alps: An interdisciplinary approach [p.42]
Zumbühl HJ, Steiner D & Nussbaumer SU
> Palaeoclimate from glaciers: Examples from the Eastern Alps during the Alpine Lateglacial and early Holocene [p.58]
Kerschner H & Ivy-Ochs S
> Recent glacier changes and climate trends on South Georgia [p.72]
Gordon JE, Haynes VM & Hubbard A
> 20th-century glacier recession and regional hydroclimatic changes in northwestern Patagonia [p.85]
Masiokas MH, Villalba R, Luckman BH, Lascano ME, Delgado S & Stepanek P
> Tracing tropical Andean glaciers over space and time: Some lessons and transdisciplinary implications [p.101]
Mark BG
> Century to millennial-scale temperature variations for the last two thousand years indicated from glacial geologic records of Southern Alaska [p.115]
Wiles GC, Barclay DJ, Calkin PE & Lowell TV
> Late Holocene monsoonal temperate glacier fluctuations on the Tibetan Plateau [p.126]
Yang B, Bräuning A, Dong Z, Zhang Z & Keqing J
> A brief consideration of climate forcing factors in view of the Holocene glacier record [p.141]
Grove AT
> Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Central Andes: Temperature versus humidity control — A case study from the eastern Bolivian Andes (17°S) and regional synthesis [p.148]
Kull C, Imhof S, Grosjean M, Zech R & Veit
This special issue section consists of five papers (one invited review and four research articles) selected from the 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology held 11-17 June 2006 in Beijing, China. PAGES was a co-sponsor of the conference.
> Tree Rings and Ecology : The 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology [p. 129]
Zhang Q-B & Shao X
> An Overview of the Biology of Reaction Wood Formation [p. 131]
Du S & Yamamoto F
> Growth Rings of Roots in Perennial Forbs in Duolun Grassland, Inner Mongolia, China [p. 144]
Liu Y-B & Zhang Q-B
> Hydrological Response of Populus euphratica Olve. Radial Growth in Ejinaa Banner, Inner Mongolia [p. 150]
Liu P-X, Peng J-F & Chen F-
> Age Structure and Growth Pattern of an Endangered Species, Amentotaxus formosana Li [p. 157–167]
Lin C, Chan M-H, Chen F-S & Wang Y-N
> Spatial Distribution of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in Relation to Climate and Stand Characteristics: A Dendroecological Analysis [p. 168]
Campbell EM, Alfaro RI & Hawkes B
This special issue arose from papers presented at the PAGES 2nd Open Science Meeting held from 10-12 August 2005 in Beijing, China.
> Detecting human impacts on the flora, fauna, and summer monsoon of Pleistocene Australia [p.463]
Miller GH, Magee JW, Fogel ML & Gagan MK
> Agricultural sustainability in the semi-arid Near East [p.193]
Hole F
> Multiproxy records of climate variability for Kamchatka for the past 400 years [p.119]
Solomina O, Wiles G, Shiraiwa T & D'Arrigo
> Low-frequency oscillations of the Atlantic Ocean meridional overturning circulation in a coupled climate model [p.97]
Schulz M, Prange M & Klocker A
> Climate-human-environment interactions: resolving our past [p.187]
Dearing JA
> Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change: paleo-perspectives for future climate change [p.167]
Shulmeister J, Rodbell DT, Gagan MK & Seltzer GO
> Past temperature reconstructions from deep ice cores: relevance for future climate change [p.145]
Masson-Delmotte V, Dreyfus G, Braconnot P, Johnsen S, Jouzel J, Kageyama M, Landais A, Loutre M-F, Nouet J, Parrenin F, Raynaud D, Stenni B & Tuenter E
> Social vulnerability to climate in the "Little Ice Age": an example from Central Europe in the early 1770s [p.115]
Pfister C & Brázdil R
Special issue emerging from the the Australasian past climates workshop in June 2005.
> Reconstructing El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) from high-resolution palaeoarchives [p.707]
Gergis J, Braganza K, Fowler A, Mooney S & Risbey J
> Development and testing of transfer functions for generating quantitative climatic estimates from Australian pollen data [p. 723]
Cook EJ & van der Kaars S
> The vegetation history of the last glacial–interglacial cycle in eastern New South Wales, Australia [p.735]
Williams NJ, Harle KJ, Gale SJ & Heijnis H
> Integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records for the Australian Last Glacial Maximum and Termination: a contribution from the OZ INTIMATE group [p.751]
Turney CSM, Haberle S, Fink D, Kershaw AP, Barbetti M, Barrows TT, Black M, Cohen TJ, Corrège T, Hesse PP, Hua Q, Johnston R, Morgan V, Moss P, Nanson G, Ommen Tv, Rule S, Williams NJ, Zhao J-X, D'Costa D, Feng Y-X, Gagan M, Mooney S & Xia Q
> Late Quaternary palaeoceanography of the Circumpolar Deep Water from the South Tasman Rise [p.763]
Moy AD, Howard WR & Gagan MK
> Extension of New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) tree-ring chronologies into Oxygen Isotope Stage (OIS) 3 [p.779]
Palmer J, Lorrey A, Turney CSM, Hogg A, Baillie M, Fifield K & Ogden J
> Time-slice analysis of the Australian summer monsoon during the late Quaternary using the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model [p.789]
Marshall AG & Lynch AH
This special issue is a publication of PAGES PEP I (Pole-Equator-Pole transect through the Americas), a former Working Group. The aim was to integrate the research findings of climatologists and marine and continental paleoscientists studying paleoclimatic changes in and around tropical South America.
> Late Quaternary climates of tropical America and adjacent seas [p.1]
Martinez I, Spero HJ & Berrio JC
> Annual and inter-annual variability of the present climate in northern South America and southern Mesoamerica [p.3]
Poveda G, Waylen PR & Pulwarty RS
> Colombian dry moist forest transitions in the Llanos Orientales—A comparison of model and pollen-based biome reconstructions [p.28]
Marchant R, Berrío JC, Behling H, Boom A & Hooghiemstra H
> Holocene space–time succession of the Middle Atrato wetlands, Chocó biogeographic region, Colombia [p.45]
Urrego LE, Molina LA, Urrego DH & Ramírez LF
> Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Panama Basin: Palynological evidence from marine cores ODP 677B and TR 163-38 [p.62]
González C, Urrego LE & Martínez JI
> Late Glacial and Holocene environmental and climatic changes from a limnological transect through Colombia, northern South America [p.81]
Vélez MI, Hooghiemstra H, Metcalfe S, Wille M & Berrío JC
> Variability in the mean latitude of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone as recorded by riverine input of sediments to the Cariaco Basin (Venezuela) [p.97]
Peterson LC & Haug GH
> Foraminifera and coccolithophorid assemblage changes in the Panama Basin during the last deglaciation: Response to sea-surface productivity induced by a transient climate change [p.114]
Martínez I, Rincon D, Yokoyama Y & Barrows T
This special issue emerged from the International Young Scientists Global Change Conference 2003 in Italy, co-sponsored by PAGES.
> Introduction [p.81]
Ross K & Grosskurth J
> Gender-specific out-migration, deforestation and urbanization in the Ecuadorian Amazon [p.99]
Barbieri AF & Carr DL
> Modelling agricultural nitrogen contributions to the Jiulong River estuary and coastal water [p.111]
Cao W, Hong H & Yue S
> Living and dying with glaciers: people's historical vulnerability to avalanches and outburst floods in Peru [p.122]
Carey M
> Past 100 ky surface salinity-gradient response in the Eastern Arabian Sea to the summer monsoon variation recorded by δ18O of G. sacculifer [p.135]
Chodankar AR, Banakar VK & Oba T
> Measuring the economic impact of climate change on major South African field crops: a Ricardian approach [p.143]
Gbetibouo GA & Hassan RM
> Climatic and biological simulations in a two-way coupled atmosphere–biosphere model (CABM) [p.153]
Dan L, Ji J & Li Y
> Agricultural impacts on ecosystem functioning in temperate areas of North and South America [p.170]
Guerschman JP & Paruelo JM
> Phytochemical changes in leaves of subtropical grasses and fynbos shrubs at elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations [p.181]
Hattas D, Stock WD, Mabusela WT & Green IR
> An ecological economics framework for assessing environmental flows: the case of inter-basin water transfers in Lesotho [p.193]
Matete M & Hassan R
> Greenhouse gas emissions from a managed grassland [p.201]
Jones SK, Rees RM, Skiba UM & Ball BC
> Variability of reference evapotranspiration and water demands. Association to ENSO in the Maipo river basin, Chile [p.212]
Meza FJ
> Climate variability, vegetation productivity and people at risk [p.221]
Milesi C, Hashimoto H, Running SW & Nemani RR
> The use of a multilevel statistical model to analyze factors influencing land use: a study of the Ecuadorian Amazon [p.232]
Pan WKY & Bilsborrow RE
> Improving the methodology for assessing natural hazard impacts [p.253]
Patwardhan A & Sharma U
> Stabilization and global climate policy [p.266]
Sarofim MC, Forest CE, Reiner DM & Reilly JM
> Mitigation of climate change impacts on raptors by behavioural adaptation: ecological buffering mechanisms [p.273]
Wichmann MC, Groeneveld J, Jeltsch F & Grimm V
> Longitudinal variation of radial growth at Alaska's northern treeline—recent changes and possible scenarios for the 21st century [p.282]
Wilmking M & Juday GP
> Mid–late Holocene monsoon climate retrieved from seasonal Sr/Ca and δ18O records of Porites lutea corals at Leizhou Peninsula, northern coast of South China Sea [p.301]
Yu K-F, Zhao J-X, Wei G-J, Cheng X-R & Wang P-X
This is the synthesis special issue of PAGES PEP II (Pole-Equator-Pole transect through Australasia), a former working group within the broader framework of the PANASH — Palaeoclimates of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres initiative.
> Climate, human, and natural systems of the PEP II transect [p.3]
Oldfield F & Alverson K
> Southern migration of westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere PEP II transect during the Last Glacial Maximum [p.13]
Ono Y & Irino T
> The Southern Hemisphere westerlies in the Australasian sector over the last glacial cycle: a synthesis [p.23]
Shulmeister J, Goodwin I, Renwick J, Harle K, Armand L, McGlone MS, Cook E, Dodson J, Hesse PP, Mayewski P & Curran M
> Timings and causes of glacial advances across the PEP-II transect (East-Asia to Antarctica) during the last glaciation cycle [p.55]
Ono Y, Shulmeister J, Lehmkuhl F, Asahi K & Aoki
> The evolution of dry lands in northern China and in the Republic of Mongolia since the Last Glacial Maximum [p.69]
Yang X, Rost KT, Lehmkuhl F, Zhenda Z & Dodson J
> Late Quaternary climates of the Australian arid zone: a review [p.87]
Hesse PP, Magee JW & van der Kaars S
> History of vegetation and habitat change in the Austral-Asian region [p.103]
Hope G, Kershaw AP, van der Kaars S, Xiangjun S, Liew P-M, Heusser LE, Takahara H, McGlone M, Miyoshi N & Moss PT
> Post-glacial evolution of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and El Niño-Southern oscillation [p.127]
Gagan MK, Hendy EJ, Haberle SG & Hantoro WS
> Populating PEP II: the dispersal of humans and agriculture through Austral-Asia and Oceania [p.145]
Bird MI, Hope G & Taylor D
> Climates of change: human dimensions of Holocene environmental change in low latitudes of the PEPII transect [p.165]
Haberle SG & David B
> Interactions of natural hazards and society in Austral-Asia: evidence in past and recent records [p.181]
Sidle RC, D. Taylor, Lu XX, Adger WN, Lowe DJ, de Lange WP, Newnham RM & Dodson JR
This special issue developed partly from the open PAGES conference held in Moscow in May 2002.
> High latitude Eurasian paleoenvironments: introduction and synthesis [p.1]
Solomina O & Alverson K
> Lateglacial and Holocene sea level changes in semi-enclosed seas of North Eurasia: examples from the contrasting Black and White Seas [p.19]
Kaplin PA & Selivanov AO
> Reflections of pre- and early-agrarian human impact in the pollen diagrams of Estonia [p.37]
Poska A, Saarse L & Veski S
> Late quaternary landscape evolution of the upper Dnister valley, western Ukraine [p.51]
Huhmann M, Kremenetski KV, Hiller A & Brückner H
> Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in Late Glacial–Holocene freshwater carbonates from Belarus and their palaeoclimatic implications [p.73]
Makhnach N, Zernitskaja V, Kolosov I & Simakova G
> Architectural wooden monuments as a source of information for past environmental changes in Northern Russia [p.103]
Kozlov V & Kisternaya M
> Medieval climate warming and aridity as indicated by multiproxy evidence from the Kola Peninsula, Russia [p.113]
Kremenetski KV, Boettger T, MacDonald GM, Vaschalova T, Sulerzhitsky L & Hiller A
> Periodicity of climate conditions and solar variability derived from dendrochronological and other palaeoclimatic data in high latitudes [p.127]
Raspopov OM, Dergachev VA & Kolström T
> Paleoenvironments in Russkaya Gavan' Fjord (NW Novaya Zemlya, Barents Sea) during the last millennium [p.141]
Murdmaa I, Polyak L, Ivanova E & Khromova N
> Extreme temperature events in summer in northwest Siberia since AD 742 inferred from tree rings [p.155]
Hantemirov RM, Gorlanova LA & Shiyatov SG
> Testate amoebae (Protozoa: Testacealobosea and Testaceafilosea) as bioindicators in the Late Quaternary deposits of the Bykovsky Peninsula, Laptev Sea, Russia [p.165]
Bobrov AA, Andreev AA, Schirrmeister L & Siegert C
> Thermokarst dynamics in Western Siberia: insights from dendrochronological research [p.183]
Agafonov L, Strunk H & Nuber T
> Holocene paleoenvironmental records from Nikolay Lake, Lena River Delta, Arctic Russia [p.197]
Andreev A, Tarasov P, Schwamborn G, Ilyashuk B, Ilyashuk E, Bobrov A, Klimanov V, Rachold V & Hubberten H-W
> Equilibrium-line altitudes on reconstructed LGM glaciers of the northwest Barguzinsky Ridge, Northern Baikal, Russia [p.219]
Osipov EY
> Ecological collapse of Lake Baikal and Lake Hovsgol ecosystems during the Last Glacial and consequences for aquatic species diversity [p.227]
Karabanov E, Williams D, Kuzmin M, Sideleva V, Khursevich G, Prokopenko A, Solotchina E, Tkachenko L, Fedenya S, Kerber E, Gvozdkov A, Khlustov O, Bezrukova E, Letunova P & Krapivina S
> Changes in the volume and salinity of Lake Khubsugul (Mongolia) in response to global climate changes in the upper Pleistocene and the Holocene [p.245]
Fedotov AP, Chebykin EP, Yu SM, Vorobyova SS, Yu OE, Golobokova LP, Pogodaeva TV, Zheleznyakova TO, Grachev MA, Tomurhuu D, Oyunchimeg T, Narantsetseg T, Tomurtogoo O, Dolgikh PT, Arsenyuk MI & Batist MD
> Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational changes on the Ulagan high-mountain plateau, Altai Mountains, southern Siberia [p.259]
Blyakharchuk TA, Wright HE, Borodavko PS, Knaap WOvd & Ammann B
> Late Pleistocene–Holocene oceanographic variability in the Okhotsk Sea: geochemical, lithological and paleontological evidence [p.281]
Gorbarenko SA, Southon JR, Keigwin LD, Cherepanova MV & Gvozdeva IG
> Kunashir (Kuriles) Oak 400-year reconstruction of temperature and relation to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation [p.303]
Jacoby G, Solomina O, Frank D, Eremenko N & D'Arrigo R
> The role of global and local factors in determining the middle to late Holocene environmental history of the South Kurile and Komandar islands, northwestern Pacific [p.313]
Razjigaeva NG, Grebennikova TA, Ganzey LA, Mokhova LM & Bazarova VB
> Dynamics of sea mammal and bird populations of the Bering Sea region over the last several millennia [p.335]
Savinetsky AB, Kiseleva NK & Khassanov BF