Special issues
This special issue, a contribution to the PAGES/CLIVAR group, contains 12 papers which represent highlights from a European Commission research project: ‘Analysis of Dendrochronological Variability and Associated Natural Climates in Eurasia – the last 10000 years’ (ADVANCE-10K). The focus is on the climatic implications of dendrochronology and especially on developing an integrated, dendrochronological approach to high-resolution climatic reconstruction in the Holocene, with the ultimate aim of extending this to the global scale.
> ADVANCE-10K: a European contribution towards a hemispheric dendroclimatology for the Holocene [p.639]
Briffa KR & Mathews JA
> Relationships between circulation strength and the variability of growing-season and cold-season climate in northern and central Europe [p.643]
Jones PD, Briffa KR, Osborn TJ, Moberg A & Bergström H
> A 7400-year tree-ring chronology in northern Swedish Lapland: natural climatic variability expressed on annual to millennial timescales [p.657]
Grudd H, Briffa KR, Karlén W, Bartholin TS, Jones PD & Kromer B
> Low-frequency summer temperature variation in central Sweden since the tenth century inferred from tree rings [p.667]
Gunnarson BE & Linderholm HW
> The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland: Part 1, chronology construction and initial inferences [p.673]
Eronen M, Zetterberg P, Briffa KR, Lindholm M, Meriläinen J & Timonen M
> The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland: Part 2, interannual to centennial variability in summer temperatures for 7500 years [p.681]
Helama S, Lindholm M, Timonen M, Meriläinen J & Eronen M
> The climatic interpretation of pan-European signature years in oak ring-width series [p.689]
Kelly PM, Leuschner HH, Briffa KR & Harris IC
> Subfossil European bog oaks: population dynamics and long-term growth depressions as indicators of changes in the Holocene hydro-regime and climate [p.695]
Leuschner HH, Sass-Klaassen U, Jansma E, Baillie MGL & Spurk M
> Depositional frequency of German subfossil oaks: climatically and non-climatically induced fluctuations in the Holocene [p.707]
Spurk M, Leuschner HH, Baillie MGL, Briffa KR & Friedrich M
> A continuous multimillennial ring-width chronology in Yamal, northwestern Siberia [p.717]
Hantemirov RM & Shiyatov SG
> Summer temperatures in eastern Taimyr inferred from a 2427-year late-Holocene tree-ring chronology and earlier floating series [p.727]
Mukhtar M. Naurzbaev, Vaganov EA, Sidorova OV & Schweingruber FH
> Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals [p.737]
Briffa KR, Osborn TJ, Schweingruber FH, Jones PD, Shiyatov SG & Vaganov EA
> Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 2, spatio-temporal variability and associated climate patterns [p.759]
Briffa KR, Osborn TJ, Schweingruber FH, Jones PD, Shiyatov SG & Vaganov EA
This special issue emerged from the 3rd PAGES Open Science Meeting in July 2009 in Corvallis, USA.
> Perturbing phytoplankton: response and isotopic fractionation with changing carbonate chemistry in two coccolithophore species [p.771]
Rickaby REM, Henderiks J & Young JN
> Questions of importance to the conservation of biological diversity: answers from the past [p.759]
Willis KJ & Bhagwat SA
> Past dynamics of the Australian monsoon: precession, phase and links to the global monsoon concept [p.695]
Beaufort L, van der Kaars S, Bassinot FC & Moron V
> Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks [p.483]
Gaillard MJ, Sugita S, Mazier F, Trondman AK, Broström A, et al.
> Coral Cd/Ca and Mn/Ca records of ENSO variability in the Gulf of California [p.401]
Carriquiry JD & Villaescusa JA
> Millennial and sub-millennial scale climatic variations recorded in polar ice cores over the last glacial period [p.345]
Capron E, Landais A, Chappellaz J, Schilt A, Buiron D, Dahl-Jensen D, Johnsen SJ, Jouzel J, Lemieux-Dudon B, Loulergue L, Leuenberger M, Masson-Delmotte V, Meyer H, Oerter H & Stenni B
> Water vapour source impacts on oxygen isotope variability in tropical precipitation during Heinrich events [p.325]
SC Lewis, AN LeGrande, M Kelley, GA Schmidt
> Patterns of millennial variability over the last 500 ka [p.295]
Siddall M, Rohling EJ, Blunier T & Spahni R
> A unified proxy for ENSO and PDO variability since 1650 [p.1]
McGregor S, Timmermann A & Timm O
This special issue emerged from the 1st PAGES Young Scientists Meeting in July 2009 in Corvallis, USA.
> PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) – 'Retrospective views on our planet's future'
Cléroux C, Fehrenbacher J, Phipps S, Rupper S, Williams B & Kiefer T
> Response of terrestrial N2O and NOx emissions to abrupt climate change
Pfeiffer M & Kaplan JO
> Tropical vegetation evidence for rapid sea level changes associated with Heinrich Events
González C & Dupont LM
> The first-order effect of Holocene Northern Peatlands on global carbon cycle dynamics
Wang Y, Roulet NT, Frolking S, Mysak LA, Liu X & Jin Z
> Assessing antiquity and turnover of terrestrial ecosystems in eastern North America using fossil pollen data: A preliminary study
Liu Y, Jackson ST, Brewer S & Williams JW
> Water availability reconstructions using tree-rings in the Valdivian rainforest ecoregion, Chile
Lara RUA, Peñaa MP & Christie DA
> How different proxies record precipitation variability over southeastern South America
Chiessi CM, Mulitza S, Pätzold J & Wefer G
> Comparison of diatom records of the Heinrich event 1 in the Western North Atlantic
Gil IM, Keigwin LD & Abrantes FG
> Spatial patterns in Central Asian climate and equilibrium line altitudes
Rupper S & Koppes M
> Understanding ENSO dynamics through the exploration of past climates
Phipps SJ & Brown JN
> Could anthropogenic soil erosion have influenced Mediterranean vegetation distribution over the Holocene?
Collins PM, Kaplan JO & Davis BAS
> Sedimentation adjacent to naturally eroding and breakwater-protected shorelines in Chesapeake Bay
Palinkas CM, Koch EW & Barth N
> Temporal trend in the intensity of subsurface saltwater ingressions to coastal Lake Sarbsko (northern Poland) during the last few decades
Woszczyk M, Spychalski W, Lutyńska M & Cieśliński R
> Mid-late Holocene environments of Agua Buena locality (34°50'S; 69°56'W), Mendoza, Argentina
Navarro D, Mehl A, Zarate MA & Paez MM
> 230Th/U-dating of a late Holocene low uranium speleothem from Cuba
Fensterer C, Scholz D, Hoffmann D, Mangini A & Pajón JM
> Quercus macrocarpa annual, early- and latewood widths as hydroclimatic proxies, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada
Vanstone JR & Sauchyn DJ
> Teberda valley runoff variability (AD 1850–2005) based on tree-ring reconstruction (Northern Caucasus, Russia)
Matskovsky VV, Dolgova EA & Solomina ON
> Mg/Ca variability of the planktonic foraminifera G. ruber s.s. and N. dutertrei from shallow and deep cores determined by electron microprobe image mapping
Fehrenbacher J & Martin P
> North Atlantic Globorotalia inflata coretop Mg/Ca calibrations and temperature reconstructions over Termination I
Farmer EJ, Chapman MR & Andrews JE
> What caused G. truncatulinoides to calcify in shallower water during the early Holocene in the western Atlantic / Gulf of Mexico?
Cléroux C & Lynch-Stieglitz J
> Assessing the potential of Southern Caribbean corals for reconstructions of Holocene temperature variability
Giry C, Felis T, Scheffers S & Fensterer C
> A forward model of cave dripwater δ18O and application to speleothem records
Truebe SA, Ault TR & Cole JE
> Evaluation of the "amount effect" at speleothem sites in the Asian monsoon region
Lee J-E & Swann AL
This special issue arose from the International Workshop on Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Arid Lands held in September 2007.
> Hydrological and climatic changes in deserts of China since the late Pleistocene [p.1]
Yang X & Scuderi LA
> Recharge to the inter-dune lakes and Holocene climatic changes in the Badain Jaran Desert, western China [p.10]
Yang X, Ma N, Dong J, Zhu B, Xu B, Ma Z & Liu J
> Erosional effects on terrestrial resources over the last millennium in Reykjanes, southwest Iceland [p.20]
Gísladóttira G, Erlendsson E, Lal R & Bigham J
> A 108.83-m ice-core record of atmospheric dust deposition at Mt. Qomolangma (Everest), Central Himalaya [p.33]
Xu J, Hou S, Qin D, Kaspari S, Mayewski PA, Petit JR, Delmonte B, Kang S, Ren J, Chappellaz J & Hong S
> Molluscs as evidence for a late Pleistocene and early Holocene humid period in the southern coastal desert of Peru (14.5°S) [p.39]
Mächtle B, Unkel I, Eitel B, Kromer B & Schiegl S
> Monitoring playa lake inundation in the western United States: Modern analogues to late-Holocene lake level change [p.48]
Scuderi LA, Laudadio CK & Fawcett PJ
> Late Holocene vegetation and climate oscillations in the Qaidam Basin of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau [p.59]
Zhao Y, Yu Z, Liu X, Zhao C, Chen F & Zhang K
> Local-scale spatial variability of soil organic carbon and its stock in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau, China [p.70]
Wanga Y, Fu B, Lü Y, Song C & Luan Y
> Patterns and implications of plant-soil δ13C and δ15N values in African savanna ecosystems [p.77]
Wang L, D'Odorico P, Ries L & Macko SA
> Variations in sediment yield over the advance and retreat of a calving glacier, Laguna San Rafael, North Patagonian Icefield [p.84]
Koppes M, Sylwester R, Rivera A & Hallet B
> Little Ice Age fluctuations of Glaciar Río Manso in the north Patagonian Andes of Argentina [p.96]
Masiokas MH, Luckman BH, Villalba R, Ripalta A & Rabassa J
> A bimillennial-length tree-ring reconstruction of precipitation for the Tavaputs Plateau, Northeastern Utah [p.107]
Knight TA, Meko DM & Baisan CH
> Lake levels and sedimentary environments during deposition of the Trego Hot Springs and Wono tephras in the Lake Lahontan basin, Nevada, USA [p.118]
Adams KD
> Ostracods as tsunami tracers in Holocene sequences [p.130]
Ruiz F, Abad M, Cáceres LM, Vidal JR, Carretero MI, Pozo M & González-Regalado ML
> Sedimentary evolution of a late Pleistocene wetland indicating extreme coastal uplift in southern Tanzania [p.136]
Reuter M, Piller WE, Harzhauser M, Berning B & Kroh A
> Changes of water level in the Eemian palaeolake at Imbramowice (SW Poland) based on isotopic and cladoceran data [p.143]
Mirosław-Grabowska J & Gąsiorowski M
> Periglacial climate at the 2.5 Ma onset of Northern Hemisphere glaciation inferred from the Whippoorwill Formation, northern Missouri, USA [p.151]
Rovey CW & Balco G
This special issue arose from the International Workshop on Late Quaternary Environmental Changes in Arid Lands held in September 2007.
> Guest Editors’ Introduction. Land Degradation and Rehabilitation in Ecologically Fragile Areas: Research Status and Perspectives [p. 1]
Yang X & Conacher A
> Drivers of Unsustainable Land Use in the Semi-Arid Khabur River Basin, Syria [p. 4]
Hole F
> History of Deforestation and Reforestation in the Dinaric Karst [p. 15]
Kranjc A
> The Role of Land Management in Shaping Arid/Semi-arid Landscapes: the Case of the Catholic Church (CICM) in Western Inner Mongolia from the 1870s (Late Qing Dynasty) to the 1940s (Republic of China) [p. 24]
Zhang X, Sun T & Zhang J
> MODIS-derived NDVI Characterisation of Drought-Induced Evergreen Dieoff in Western North America [p. 34]
Yuhas AN & Scuderi LA
> The Role of Fire Disturbance on Runoff and Erosion Processes – a Long-Term Approach, Mt. Carmel Case Study, Israel [p. 46]
Wittenberg L & Inbar M
> Chemical Weathering of Detrital Sediments in the Taklamakan Desert, Northwestern China [p. 57]
Zhu B & Yang X
> The Design and Development of a Closed Chamber for the in-situ Quantification of Dryland Soil Carbon Dioxide Fluxes [p. 71]
Hoon SR, Thomas AD & Linton PE
This special issue contains eight papers on PAGES Focus 4 (formerly 5) on past ecosystem processes and human–environment interactions. It emerged from a 2005 PAGES Focus 5 meeting.
> Using diatoms to assess the impacts of prehistoric, pre-industrial and modern land-use on Danish lakes [p.17]
Bradshaw EG, Nielsen AB & Anderson NJ
> Human–environment interactions: learning from the past [p.1]
Dearing J, Battarbee R, Dikau R, Larocque I & Oldfield F
> Sequential impacts of Polynesian and European settlement on vegetation and environmental processes recorded in sediments at Whangapoua Estuary, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand [p.25]
Ogden J, Deng Y, Horrocks M, Nichol S & Anderson S
> Holocene fire history from the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, New South Wales, Australia: the climate, humans and fire nexus [p.41]
Black MP & Mooney SD
> Historical deforestation as a cause of alluviation in small valleys, subcarpathian loess plateau, Poland [p.52]
Klimek K, Lanczont M & Nogaj-Chachaj J
> Soil erosion response to climatic change and human activity during the Quaternary on the Loess Plateau, China [p.62]
He X, Zhou J, Zhang X & Tang K
> Climate and human impact on lowland lake sedimentation in Central Coastal California: the record from c. 650 ad to the present [p.71]
Plater AJ, Boyle JF, Mayers C, Turner SD & Stroud RW
> Land cover change and abrupt environmental impacts on Javan volcanoes, Indonesia: a long-term perspective on recent events [p.86]
Lavigne F & Gunnell Y
> Past and future perspectives upon landscape instability in Cumbria, northwest England [p.101]
Chiverrell RC
> Human–environment interactions: towards synthesis and simulation [p.115]
Dearing J, Battarbee R, Dikau R, Larocque I & Oldfield F
This special issue contains a group of papers selected from those presented at the 1st workshop of the SCAR-GLOCHANT and IGBP-PAGES cosponsored programme on the Late Quaternary Sedimentary Record of the Antarctic Ice Margin Evolution (ANTIME), held in Hobart, 6-1 1 July 1997.
> Unravelling the History of Climate Change [p.23]
Goodwin ID
> Introduction [p.225]
Goodwin I & Pudsey C
> Lithofacies distribution in relation to the geomorphic provinces of Prydz Bay, East Antarctica [p.227]
Harris PT, Taylor F, Pushina Z, Leitchenkov G, O'Brien PE & Smirnov V
> Late Quaternary sediment facies in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica and their relationship to glacial advance onto the continental shelf [p.236]
Domack E, O'Brien P, Harris P, Taylor F, Quilty PG, Santis LD & Raker B
> A Late Holocene desiccation of Lake Hoare and Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica [p.247]
Lyons WB, Tyler SW, Wharton RA, McKnight DM & Vaughn BH
> Abandoned penguin colonies and environmental change in the Palmer Station area, Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula [p.257]
Emslie SD, Fraser W, Smith RC & Walker W
> Record of Holocene glacial oscillations in Bransfield Basin as revealed by siliceous microfossil assemblages [p.269]
Bárcena MA, Gersonde R, Ledesma S, Fabrés J, Calafat AM, Canals M, Sierro FJ & Flores JA
> Glacial–interglacial deposition on a sediment drift on the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula [p.286]
Pudsey CJ & Camerlenghi A
> Glacial and marine geological evidence for the ice sheet configuration in the Weddell Sea–Antarctic Peninsula region during the Last Glacial Maximum [p.309]
Bentley MJ & Anderson JB
> Antarctic glacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum: an overview of the record on land [p.326]
Ingólfsson Ó, Hjort C, Berkman PA, Björck S, Colhoun E, Goodwin ID, Hall B, Hirakawa K, Melles M, Möller P & Prentice ML
> Circum-Antarctic coastal environmental shifts during the Late Quaternary reflected by emerged marine deposits [p.345]
Berkman PA, Andrews JT, Björck S, Colhoun EA, Emslie SD, Goodwin ID, Hall BL, Hart CP, Hirakawa K, Igarashi A, Ingólfsson O, López-Martínez J, Lyons WB, Mabin MCG, Quilty PG, Taviani M & Yoshida Y
This special issue came out of the PAGES Focus 4 LIMPACS (Human Impacts on Lake Ecosystems) workshop ‘Salinity, Climate Change and Salinisation’ held in Mildura, Australia, 30 September – 3 October, 2004.
> Differences in regeneration between hurricane damaged and clear-cut mangrove stands 25 years after clearing [p.35]
Ferwerda J, Ketner P & McGuinness K
> The impact of regulation and salinisation on floodplain lakes: the lower River Murray, Australia [p.135]
Gell P, Tibby J, Little F, Baldwin D & Hancock G
> LIMPACS––Human and Climate Interactions with Lake Ecosystems: setting research priorities in the study of the impact of salinisation and climate change on lakes, 2005–2010 [p.99]
Gell P, Fritz S, Battarbee R & Tibby J
> Diatom–salinity relationships in wetlands: assessing the influence of salinity variability on the development of inference models [p.207]
Tibby J, Gell P, Fluin J & Sluiter I
> Influence of groundwater on the evaporative evolution of saline lakes in the Wimmera of south-eastern Australia [p.185]
Radke L & Howard K
> Palaeolimnological evidence for the independent evolution of neighbouring terminal lakes, the Murray Darling Basin, Australia [p.117]
Fluin J, Gell P, Haynes D, Tibby J & Hancock G
> Linking land to ocean: feedbacks in the management of socio-ecological systems in the Great Barrier Reef catchments [p.25]
Gordon I
> Satellite-based monitoring of tropical seagrass vegetation: current techniques and future developments [p.59]
Ferwerda J, Leeuw Jd, Atzberger C & Vekerdy Z
> Utilization of seagrass habitats by juvenile groupers and snappers in Banten Bay, Banten Province, Indonesia [p.85]
Nuraini S, Carballo E, van Densen W, Machiels M, Lindeboom H & Nagelkerke L
> Impact of solid shrimp pond waste materials on mangrove growth and mortality: a case study from Pak Phanang, Thailand [p.47]
Vaiphasa C, de Boer W, Skidmore A, Panitchart S, Vaiphasa T, Bamrongrugsa N & Santitamnont P
This special issue is the outcome of a LIMPACS workshop (Focus 4) on past environmental variability and water resources in arid and semi-arid regions held from 11-14 April 2007 in Nanjing, China.
> Past, recent, and future climate-change impacts on hydrologic and environmental variability in selected regions of Asia [p.1]
Fritz SC & Gell PA
> Stable isotope and ostracode species assemblage evidence for lake level changes of Nam Co, southern Tibet, during the past 600 years [p.2]
Wrozyna C, Frenzel P, Steeb P, Zhu L, Geldern Rv, Mackensen A & Schwalb A
> Environmental change and human activities during the 20th century reconstructed from the sediment of Xingyun Lake, Yunnan Province, China [p.14]
Zhang H, Li S, Feng Q & Zhang S
> Lacustrine radiocarbon reservoir ages in Co Ngoin and Zigê Tangco, central Tibetan Plateau [p.21]
Wu Y, Li S, Lücke A, Wünnemann B, Zhou L, Reimer P & Wang S
> Major ion chemistry of waters in Lake Qinghai catchments, NE Qinghai-Tibet plateau, China [p.35]
Xu H, Hou Z, An Z, Liu X & Dong J
> Lake water changes in response to climate change in northern China: Simulations and uncertainty analysis [p.44]
Yu G, Shen H
> Simulation of regional temperature and precipitation in the past 50 years and the next 30 years over China [p.57]
Liu Y, Li X, Zhang Q, Guo Y, Gao G & Wang J
> Trends in seasonal and annual rainfall and rainy days in Kashmir Valley in the last century [p.64]
Kumar V & Jain SK
> Varying strength of the relationship between tree-rings and summer month moisture index (April–September) over Central India: A case study [p.70]
Ram S, Borgaonkar HP & Sikder AB
This special issue arose from the first joint HITE-POLLANDCAL conference, held 13-14 November 2005 in Umeå, Sweden. The conference focused on the human impact on terrestrial ecosystems on long- to short-term scales, with an emphasis on pollen calibration and quantitative reconstruction of past land-cover changes. HITE is a Working Group of PAGES Focus 4.
> Human impact on terrestrial ecosystems, pollen calibration and quantitative reconstruction of past land-cover [p.415]
Gaillard M-J, Sugita S, Bunting J, Dearing J & Bittmann F
> The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: a review and results from the POLLANDCAL network [p.419]
Gaillard M-J, Sugita S, Bunting MJ, Middleton R, Broström A, Caseldine C, Giesecke T, Hellman SEV, Hicks S, Hjelle K, Langdon C, Nielsen A-B, Poska A, von Stedingk H & Veski S
> Effects of the sampling design and selection of parameter values on pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation: a case study in southern Sweden using the REVEALS model [p.445]
Hellman SEV, Gaillard M-j, Broström A & Sugita S
> Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review [p.461]
> Pollen productivity estimates and relevant source area of pollen for selected plant taxa in a pasture woodland landscape of the Jura Mountains (Switzerland) [p.479]
Mazier F, Broström A, Gaillard M-J, Sugita S, Vittoz P & Buttler A
> Evaluating Swiss pollen productivity estimates using a simulation approach [p.497]
Soepboer W, Vervoort JM, Sugita S & Lotter AF
> Relative pollen productivity and fall speed estimates for southern African savanna taxa [p.507]
Duffin KI & Bunting MJ
> Using quantitative pollen-based land-cover estimations and a spatial CA_Markov model to reconstruct the development of cultural landscape at Rõuge, South Estonia [p.527]
Poska A, Sepp E, Veski S & Koppel K
> Pollen modelling, palaeoecology and archaeology: virtualisation and/or visualisation of the past? [p.543]
Caseldine C, Fyfe R & Hjelle K
> Conserving idealized landscapes: past history, public perception and future management in the New Forest (UK) [p.551]
Grant MJ & Edwards ME
> Grazing dynamics at different spatial and temporal scales: examples from the Swedish historical record a.d. 1620–1850 [p.563]
Dahlström A
> Long-term changes in floristic diversity in southern Sweden: palynological richness, vegetation dynamics and land-use [p.573]
Berglund BE, Gaillard M-J, Björkman L & Persson T
> Correlation between spatial distributions of pollen data, archaeological records and physical parameters from north-western France: a GIS and numerical analysis approach [p.585]
Gaudin L, Marguerie D & Lanos P
> Detecting human impact in the pollen record using data-model comparison [p.597]
Bradshaw RHW
> Effects of human land-use on the global carbon cycle during the last 6,000 years [p.605]
Olofsson J & Hickler T