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Validation of climate model-inferred regional temperature change for late-glacial Europe

Comparison of climate model hindcasts with proxy data is essential to improve model reliability, yet standardized palaeoclimate data sets are lacking. Here, Heiri et al. compare chironomid-based palaeotemperature records with the ECHAM-4 atmospheric general circulation model, showing excellent agreement.

Oliver Heiri
Stephen J. Brooks
André F. Lotter
Research11 Sept 2014
Nature Communications

Volume: 5, P: 1-7
High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

Here, the authors use sedimentary DNA, pollen, fungal spores, chironomids, and microcharcoal from an alpine lake core to reconstruct vegetation across 12,000 years. They find that vegetation responded to climate in the early Holocene, followed by a shift to human activity from 6000 years onward corresponding with an increase in deforestation and agropastoralism.

Sandra Garcés-Pastor
Eric Coissac
Inger Greve Alsos
ResearchOpen Access04 Nov 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-16
Wild and domesticated animal abundance is associated with greater late-Holocene alpine plant diversity

The role of wild and domesticated animals on alpine ecosystems is unclear. Here, the authors use sedaDNA from 14 European alpine lakes to demonstrate a positive association between wild and domesticated animal and plant diversity through the past 14 thousand years.

Sandra Garcés-Pastor
Peter D. Heintzman
Inger Greve Alsos
ResearchOpen Access25 Apr 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-11
Warm Mediterranean mid-Holocene summers inferred from fossil midge assemblages

Reconstructions of Holocene summer temperatures differ between models and vegetation-based proxies. A quantitative reconstruction for the Mediterranean region based on fossil midge assemblages suggests warm summers, in line with climate models.

Stéphanie Samartin
Oliver Heiri
Willy Tinner
Research06 Feb 2017
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 10, P: 207-212
A continuous fish fossil record reveals key insights into adaptive radiation

This study presents a continuous fossil record, extracted from a series of sediment cores, that shows how haplochromine cichlids came to dominate the fish fauna of Lake Victoria in Africa.

Nare Ngoepe
Moritz Muschick
Ole Seehausen
ResearchOpen Access04 Oct 2023
Nature

Volume: 622, P: 315-320
Multiple causes of the Younger Dryas cold period

The last deglaciation was interrupted by a cool period known as the Younger Dryas. Numerical simulations suggest that the cold interval was the result of a combination of changes in ocean and atmospheric circulation and reduced radiative forcing.

Hans Renssen
Aurélien Mairesse
Paul J. Valdes
Research12 Oct 2015
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 8, P: 946-949
Synchronous vegetation response to the last glacial-interglacial transition in northwest Europe

Vegetation across northwest Europe responded instantly and synchronously to abrupt cooling during the last deglaciation, according to a compilation of precisely dated terrestrial records.

Stefan Engels
Christine S. Lane
Frederike Wagner-Cremer
ResearchOpen Access09 Jun 2022
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 3, P: 1-10
Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Darrell Kaufman
Nicholas McKay
Snezhana Zhilich
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access15 Jun 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1
Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Darrell Kaufman
Nicholas McKay
Snezhana Zhilich
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access12 Aug 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1
Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Darrell Kaufman
Nicholas McKay
Snezhana Zhilich
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access16 Jul 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1
A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Darrell Kaufman
Nicholas McKay
Snezhana Zhilich
ResearchOpen Access14 Apr 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-34
Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach

Darrell Kaufman
Nicholas McKay
Basil Davis
ResearchOpen Access30 Jun 2020
Scientific Data

Volume: 7, P: 1-13

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