Stivrins, Normunds and Soininen, Janne and Amon, Leeli and Fontana, Sonia L. and Gryguc, Grazyna and Heikkila, Maija and Heiri, Oliver and Kisieliene, Dalia and Reitalu, Triin and Stancikaite, Migle and Veski, Siim and Seppa, Heikki. (2016) Biotic turnover rates during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS, 151. pp. 100-110.
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Abstract
The Northern Hemisphere is currently warming at the rate which is unprecedented during the Holocene. Quantitative palaeoclimatic records show that the most recent time in the geological history with comparable warming rates was during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (PHT) about 14,000 to 11,000 years ago. To better understand the biotic response to rapid temperature change, we explore the community turnover rates during the PHT by focusing on the Baltic region in the southeastern sector of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet, where an exceptionally dense network on microfossil and macrofossil data that reflect the biotic community history are available. We further use a composite chironomid-based summer temperature reconstruction compiled specifically for our study region to calculate the rate of temperature change during the PHT. The fastest biotic turnover in the terrestrial and aquatic communities occurred during the Younger Dryas-Holocene shift at 11,700 years ago. This general shift in species composition was accompanied by regional extinctions, including disappearance of mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) and reindeer (Ranger tarandus) and many arctic-alpine plant taxa, such as Dryas octopetala, Salix polaris and Saxifraga aizoides, from the region. This rapid biotic turnover rate occurred when the rate of warming was 0.17 degrees C/decade, thus slightly lower than the current Northern Hemisphere warming of 0.2 degrees C/decade. We therefore conclude that the Younger Dryas-Holocene shift with its rapid turnover rates and associated regional extinctions represents an important palaeoanalogue to the current high latitude warming and gives insights about the probable future turnover rates and patterns of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem change. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Faculties and Departments: | 05 Faculty of Science > Departement Umweltwissenschaften > Geowissenschaften > Geoökologie (Heiri) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Heiri, Oliver |
Item Type: | Article, refereed |
Article Subtype: | Research Article |
Publisher: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
ISSN: | 0277-3791 |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article |
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Last Modified: | 18 May 2020 08:39 |
Deposited On: | 18 May 2020 08:39 |
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