Records of late quaternary environmental change from high. Temporal turnover in the composition of tropical tree communities. Exploring evironmental change 2 by anderson, david, goudie, andrew, parker, adrian isbn. View or download all content the institution has subscribed to. Late quaternary climatic variability in intertropical africa. Quaternary studies are of limited use without a clear idea of chronology. The role of climate as a speciation driver in the amazon has long been discussed. Quaternary environmental change in the tropics sarah. Tree taxa shifted latitude or elevation range in response to changes in quaternary climate. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for. The tropical lapse rate steepened during the last glacial maximum.
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Besides important changes in the abiotic environment, the late quaternary has been characterized by dynamic patterns of organism distribution. Dec 04, 2017 imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life. To learn more about using bookshare with your device, visit the help center here is an overview of the specialized formats that bookshare offers its members with links that go to. Quaternary glacialinterglacial cycles repeatedly forced thermal zones up and down the slopes of mountains, at all latitudes. Ii regional environmental change chapter 3 tropical oceans. Unrivalled coverage of the entire quaternary period enables the reader to build a balanced view of the patterns and cycles driving environmental change over millions of years. Effects of quaternary climate change and rainforest. The second edition of this authoritative introduction to the global environmental fluctuations of the quaternary period has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now includes two new chapters. Ancient environmental dna reveals shifts in dominant. Phenotypic plasticity, which may be directly induced by developmentallymediated environmental cues and result in rapid phenotypic divergences in part through changes in gene expression, is a neglected concept in domestication research despite its increasing importance in evolutionary biology. The major environmental fluctuations recorded at sumxilongmu co appear in phase with climatic changes recognized in north tropical africa, suggesting that the 8000 to 7000yrb. Most studies, however, are biased toward upland forest organisms, while other habitats are poorly. The aim of quaternary environmental change in the tropics is to provide a synthesis of the changes that occurred in tropical terrestrial and marine systems during the pleistocene and holocene, complementing dataderived reconstructions with output from stateoftheart climate models.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read quaternary environmental change in the tropics. This chapter summarizes a few major issues in tropical climate history, sea level, and biogeography. Late quaternary environmental change in the southern cape, south africa from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from boomplaas cave. Icon social media facebook icon social media linkedin icon social media twitter icon social media youtube. A climate change scenario for the tropics springerlink. Palynological records from the congo fan reveal environmental change in equatorial africa occurring 1. Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical.
Many different techniques have been developed to estimate the age of different sediment. Recent discoveries show that dramatic changes in climate and. Species interactions govern the community outcomes of environmental change, often in subtle ways, and should be considered more explicitly in paleoecological explanation. In many parts of the world, ecosystem services are already at risk, with defences against natural hazards and climate change near their limits.
Ministry of environment, blaustein institute for desert research, and sede boqer campus of bengurion university of the negev, jerusalem, israel, october 2000, 6666 pp. Ray bradley, university distinguished professor in the department of geosciences and director of the climate system research center, university of massachusetts amherst. Quaternary environment of the eurasian north wikipedia. Coastal geoindicators of environmental change in the humid. Late quaternary climate and environmental change derived. It is targeted at finalyear undergraduate students and. Biodiversity hotspots, representing regions with high species endemism and conservation threat, have been mapped globally. Kutzbach, born june 14, 1937 in reedsburg, wisconsin, is a climate scientist who pioneered the use of climate models to investigate the causes and effects of large changes of climate of the past. Although no one doubts that these temperature cycles have left their signature on contemporary patterns of geography and phylogeny, the relative roles of ecology and evolution are not well understood, especially for the tropics.
Alluvial fans, landslides and late quaternary climatic change in the wet tropics of northeast queensland december 2001 australian journal of earth sciences 486. The rates of change will be examined on time scales ranging from only a couple of years, to tens of thousands. Alluvial fans, landslides and late quaternary climatic change in the wet tropics of northeast queensland nott, j. Their spatial effects depend on latitude and topography, with extensive extinction and recolonization in higher latitudes and altitudinal shifts and complex refugia nearer the tropics. Evaluation of pollen, diatoms, and sedimentary geochemistry from cores suggests that dry climatic conditions prevailed throughout the late pleistocene. Quaternary environment of the eurasian north, abbreviated queen was an international and interdisciplinary research programme in the arctic queen was established to understand the processes involved in environmental changes in the arctic region by studying past environmental changes during the late cenozoic era. Quaternary environmental change in the tropics blackwell. Ice sheets should therefore be considered alongside orbital precessional forcing as a major driver of late quaternary climate change in the. It may involve an improvement in the quality of life as perceived by the people undergoing change.
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Late quaternary climate and vegetation of the sudanian. Moreover, the part played by atmospheric gases such as co 2 in terrestrial environmental change is now also recognised streetperrott 1994. Encyclopedia of quaternary science 2nd edition elsevier. This paper describes the construction of a climate change scenario for a region representing the extended tropics 30 n to 30 s using a methodology that combines results from a simple climate model and a global climate model gcm transient climate change experiment. Such major events caused extinction and repeated changes in the ranges of those taxa that survived. Effects of quaternary climate change and rainforest diversity. Sealevels, late quaternary late quaternary relative sealevel changes in the tropics.