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Lake anoxia, primary production, and algal community shifts in response to rapid climate changes during the Late Glacial
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, Universität Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Noé R. M. M. Schmidhauser
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, Universität Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Martin Grosjean
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, Universität Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Andrea Lami
Water Research Institute (CRN-IRSA), Unit Verbania, Viale Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania, Italy
Petra Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Plant Sciences, Universität Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 2013 Bern, Switzerland
Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Plant Sciences, Universität Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 2013 Bern, Switzerland
Hendrik Vogel
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geology, Universität Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Petra Zahajská
Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Universität Bern, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Institute of Geography, Universität Bern, Hallerstrasse 12, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Luyao Tu, Paul Zander, Sönke Szidat, Ronald Lloren, and Martin Grosjean
Biogeosciences, 17, 2715–2729, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2715-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-2715-2020, 2020
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In a small, deep lake on the Swiss Plateau, net fluxes of labile P fractions in sediments that can be released to surface waters have been predominately controlled by past hypolimnetic anoxic conditions since the early 1900s. More than 40 years of hypolimnetic withdrawal can effectively reduce net P fluxes in sediments and internal P loads but not effectively decrease eutrophication. These findings should likely serve the management of deep eutrophic lakes in temperate zones.
Christoph Dätwyler, Martin Grosjean, Nathan J. Steiger, and Raphael Neukom
Clim. Past, 16, 743–756, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-743-2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-743-2020, 2020
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The El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Southern Annular Mode (SAM) are two important modes of climate variability, strongly influencing climate across the tropics and Southern Hemisphere mid- to high latitudes. This study sheds light on their relationship over the past millennium, combining evidence from palaeoclimate proxy archives and climate models. We show that their indices were mostly negatively correlated with fluctuations likely driven by internal variability in the climate system.
Paul D. Zander, Sönke Szidat, Darrell S. Kaufman, Maurycy Żarczyński, Anna I. Poraj-Górska, Petra Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder, and Martin Grosjean
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Recent technological advances allow researchers to obtain radiocarbon ages from smaller samples than previously possible. We investigate the reliability and precision of radiocarbon ages obtained from miniature (11–150 μg C) samples of terrestrial plant fragments taken from sediment cores from Lake Żabińskie, Poland. We further investigate how sampling density (the number of ages per 1000 years) and sample mass (which is related to age precision) influence the performance of age–depth models.
Chantal Camenisch, Kathrin M. Keller, Melanie Salvisberg, Benjamin Amann, Martin Bauch, Sandro Blumer, Rudolf Brázdil, Stefan Brönnimann, Ulf Büntgen, Bruce M. S. Campbell, Laura Fernández-Donado, Dominik Fleitmann, Rüdiger Glaser, Fidel González-Rouco, Martin Grosjean, Richard C. Hoffmann, Heli Huhtamaa, Fortunat Joos, Andrea Kiss, Oldřich Kotyza, Flavio Lehner, Jürg Luterbacher, Nicolas Maughan, Raphael Neukom, Theresa Novy, Kathleen Pribyl, Christoph C. Raible, Dirk Riemann, Maximilian Schuh, Philip Slavin, Johannes P. Werner, and Oliver Wetter
Clim. Past, 12, 2107–2126, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2107-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-2107-2016, 2016
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Throughout the last millennium, several cold periods occurred which affected humanity. Here, we investigate an exceptionally cold decade during the 15th century. The cold conditions challenged the food production and led to increasing food prices and a famine in parts of Europe. In contrast to periods such as the “Year Without Summer” after the eruption of Tambora, these extreme climatic conditions seem to have occurred by chance and in relation to the internal variability of the climate system.
B. Ausín, I. Hernández-Almeida, J.-A. Flores, F.-J. Sierro, M. Grosjean, G. Francés, and B. Alonso
Clim. Past, 11, 1635–1651, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1635-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-1635-2015, 2015
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Coccolithophore distribution in 88 surface sediment samples in the Atlantic Ocean and western Mediterranean was mainly influenced by salinity at 10m depth. A quantitative coccolithophore-based transfer function was developed and applied to a fossil sediment core to estimate sea surface salinity (SSS). The quality of this function and the reliability of the SSS reconstruction were assessed by statistical analyses and discussed. Several centennial SSS changes are identified for the last 15.5 ka.
R. de Jong, L. von Gunten, A. Maldonado, and M. Grosjean
Clim. Past, 9, 1921–1932, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1921-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1921-2013, 2013
J. Elbert, M. Jacques-Coper, M. Van Daele, R. Urrutia, and M. Grosjean
Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cpd-9-1771-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/cpd-9-1771-2013, 2013
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Organic matter stored in permafrost will start decomposing due to climate warming. To better understand its composition in ice-rich Yedoma, we analyzed ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs throughout an 18.9 m long permafrost core. The combination of both proxies allow an interpretation both of regional floristic changes and of the local environmental conditions at the time of deposition.
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Biogeosciences, 13, 2151–2178, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2151-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2151-2016, 2016
Laura Sadori, Andreas Koutsodendris, Konstantinos Panagiotopoulos, Alessia Masi, Adele Bertini, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Alexander Francke, Katerina Kouli, Sébastien Joannin, Anna Maria Mercuri, Odile Peyron, Paola Torri, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Gaia Sinopoli, and Timme H. Donders
Biogeosciences, 13, 1423–1437, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1423-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1423-2016, 2016
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Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania) is the deepest, largest and oldest lake in Europe. To understand the climatic and environmental evolution of its area, a palynological study was undertaken for the last 500 ka. We found a correspondence between forested/non-forested periods and glacial-interglacial cycles of marine isotope stratigraphy. Our record shows a progressive change from cooler and wetter to warmer and dryer interglacial conditions. This shift is also visible in glacial vegetation.
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Biogeosciences, 12, 7453–7465, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7453-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7453-2015, 2015
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Gamma ray (GR) fluctuations and K values from downhole logging data obtained in the sediments of Lake Ohrid correlate with the global climate reference record (LR04 stack from δ18O) (Lisiecki and Raymo, 2005). GR and K values are considered a reliable proxy to depict glacial-interglacial cycles and document warm, humid and cold, drier periods. A robust age model for the downhole logging data over the past 630kyr was established and will play a crucial role for other working groups.
M. L. Chipman, V. Hudspith, P. E. Higuera, P. A. Duffy, R. Kelly, W. W. Oswald, and F. S. Hu
Biogeosciences, 12, 4017–4027, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4017-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4017-2015, 2015
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Tundra fires may have increased as a result of anthropogenic climate change. To evaluate this hypothesis in the context of natural variability, we reconstructed fire history of the late Quaternary in the Alaskan tundra. Fire-return intervals are spatially variable, ranging from 1648 to 6045 years at our sites. The rarity of historical fires implies that increased fire frequency may greatly alter the structure and function of tundra ecosystems.
Y. F. Yao, X. Y. Song, A. H. Wortley, S. Blackmore, and C. S. Li
Biogeosciences, 12, 1525–1535, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1525-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1525-2015, 2015
L. A. Sullivan and J. F. Parr
Biogeosciences, 10, 977–980, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-977-2013, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-977-2013, 2013
G. Brügmann, J. Krause, T. C. Brachert, B. Stoll, U. Weis, O. Kullmer, I. Ssemmanda, and D. F. Mertz
Biogeosciences, 9, 4803–4817, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4803-2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-4803-2012, 2012
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Climate warming speeds up lake eutrophication, creating “dead zones” where aquatic life suffocates due to oxygen depletion. The sediments of Amsoldingersee, a Swiss lake, revealed how climate shifts impacted the lake around 10 000–18 000 years ago. (1) Algal composition differed between both cold and warm periods. (2) Nutrient additions from dust controlled algal growth more than temperature. (3) Cold periods with ice cover led to oxygen depletion. (4) Algal communities recovered after anoxic phases.
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