Quick Search:    advanced search

GSW Home   GeoRef Home   My GSW Alerts   Contact GSW   About GSW   Journals List   Help

This Article Figures Only Full Text Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Citation Map Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Web of Science (33) Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Tzedakis, P.C. Articles by de Abreu, L. Search for Related Content GeoRef GeoRef Citation

Ecological thresholds and patterns of millennial-scale climate variability: The response of vegetation in Greece during the last glacial period

¹ School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
² Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK
³ Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK
⁴ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
⁵ Grup de Recerca Consolidat (GRC) Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
⁶ Godwin Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3SA, UK

The regional expression of millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial is examined with particular reference to the vegetation response in Greece. Inspection of three pollen records from contrasting bioclimatic areas suggests that differences in the magnitude of cold events as recognized in the North Atlantic and western Mediterranean are expressed in terms of tree population changes only in areas with a range of favorable habitats. By contrast, records from sites where populations approach their tolerance threshold do not appear to resolve differences in the amplitude of the climate oscillations. Understanding the importance of local factors in modulating the biological response to climate change is critical when attempting to establish the spatial pattern of millennial variability.

Key Words: paleoclimatology • paleoecology • last glacial • North Atlantic • Greece

This article has been cited by other articles:

				U. Kotthoff, U. C. Muller, J. Pross, G. Schmiedl, I. T. Lawson, B. van de Schootbrugge, and H. Schulz Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation dynamics in the Aegean region: an integrated view based on pollen data from marine and terrestrial archives The Holocene, November 1, 2008; 18(7): 1019 - 1032. [Abstract] [PDF]

				B. Wohlfarth, D. Veres, L. Ampel, T. Lacourse, M. Blaauw, F. Preusser, V. Andrieu-Ponel, D. Keravis, E. Lallier-Verges, S. Bjorck, et al. Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in western Europe, 40-16 ka Geology, May 1, 2008; 36(5): 407 - 410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

				P.D. Hughes, P.L. Gibbard, and J.C. Woodward Middle Pleistocene glacier behaviour in the Mediterranean: sedimentological evidence from the Pindus Mountains, Greece Journal of the Geological Society, September 1, 2006; 163(5): 857 - 867. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]