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2. Isotopic reconstruction of the African Humid Period and Congo Air Boundary migration at Lake Tana, Ethiopia
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Costa, Kassandra Maria, Russell, James, Konecky, Bronwen, and Lamb, Henry
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Environmental sciences ,Meteorology ,Atmosphere ,Climatic changes ,Paleoclimatology - Abstract
The African Humid Period of the early to mid-Holocene (12,000–5000 years ago) had dramatic ecological and societal consequences, including the expansion of vegetation and civilization into the “green Sahara.” While the humid period itself is well documented throughout northern and equatorial Africa, mechanisms behind observed regional variability in the timing and magnitude of the humid period remain disputed. This paper presents a new hydrogen isotope record from leaf waxes (δD_wax) in a 15,000-year sediment core from Lake Tana, Ethiopia (12°N, 37°E) to provide insight into the timing, duration, and intensity of the African Humid Period over northeastern Africa. δD_wax at Lake Tana ranges between −80‰ and −170‰, with an abrupt transition from D-enriched to D-depleted waxes between 13,000–11,500 years before present (13–11.5 ka). A similarly abrupt transition from D-depleted to D-enriched waxes occurs ca 8.5–8 ka and is followed by generally D-enriched waxes throughout the late Holocene. Trends in δD_wax covary with changes in Northern Hemisphere summer insolation and reflect increased precipitation at Lake Tana during the AHP; however, the transition from D-depleted to D-enriched waxes occurs earlier at Lake Tana (ca 8 ka, vs 5 ka) than in many other regional records, and the amplitude of D-depletion during the AHP is larger at Lake Tana as well. We attribute this early enrichment to a reduction of moisture derived from westerly sources (the Congo Basin and Atlantic Ocean) which we suggest are D-depleted relative to moisture sourced from the east (Indian Ocean) and the north (Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea). Our new record highlights the importance of both the northward migration of the tropical rain belt as well as east-west migration of the Congo Air Boundary to precipitation source and amount during the African Humid Period.
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- 2014
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3. Integration of the Old and New Lake Suigetsu (Japan) Terrestrial Radiocarbon Calibration Data Sets
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Staff, Richard A., Schlolaut, Gordon, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Brock, Fiona, Bryant, Charlotte L., Kitagawa, Hiroyuki, Plicht, Johannes, Marshall, Michael H., Brauer, Achim, Lamb, Henry F., Payne, Rebecca L., Tarasov, Pavel E., Haraguchi, Tsuyoshi, Gotanda, Katsuya, Yonenobu, Hitoshi, Yokoyama, Yusuke, Nakagawa, Takeshi, Suigetsu 2006 Project, and Isotope Research
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010506 paleontology ,Archeology ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Calibration (statistics) ,Borehole ,550 - Earth sciences ,Scale (descriptive set theory) ,01 natural sciences ,KYR BP ,law.invention ,law ,AGE CALIBRATION ,Radiocarbon dating ,Geomorphology ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Varve ,Sediment ,Macrofossil ,LATE-GLACIAL CHRONOLOGY ,CAL BP ,RECORD ,Data set ,YR BP ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Physical geography ,Geology - Abstract
The varved sediment profile of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan, offers an ideal opportunity from which to derive a terrestrial record of atmospheric radiocarbon across the entire range of the 14C dating method. Previous work by Kitagawa and van der Plicht (1998a,b, 2000) provided such a data set; however, problems with the varve-based age scale of their SG93 sediment core precluded the use of this data set for 14C calibration purposes. Lake Suigetsu was re-cored in summer 2006, with the retrieval of overlapping sediment cores from 4 parallel boreholes enabling complete recovery of the sediment profile for the present “Suigetsu Varves 2006” project (Nakagawa et al. 2012). Over 550 14C determinations have been obtained from terrestrial plant macrofossils picked from the latter SG06 composite sediment core, which, coupled with the core's independent varve chronology, provides the only non-reservoir-corrected 14C calibration data set across the 14C dating range.Here, physical matching of archive U-channel sediment from SG93 to the continuous SG06 sediment profile is presented. We show the excellent agreement between the respective projects' 14C data sets, allowing the integration of 243 14C determinations from the original SG93 project into a composite Lake Suigetsu 14C calibration data set comprising 808 individual 14C determinations, spanning the last 52,800 cal yr.
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- 2013
4. ESM containing details on how chronological model was built and details on general methods. from Long-term fire resilience of the Ericaceous Belt, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
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Gil-Romera, Graciela, Adolf, Carole, Benito, Blas M., Bittner, Lucas, Johansson, Maria U., Grady, David A., Lamb, Henry F., Bruk Lemma, Mekbib Fekadu, Glaser, Bruno, Betelhem Mekonnen, Sevilla-Callejo, Miguel, Zech, Michael, Zech, Wolfgang, and Miehe, Georg
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2. Zero hunger ,15. Life on land - Abstract
Fire is the most frequent disturbance in the Ericaceous Belt (ca 3000–4300 m a.s.l.), one of the most important plant communities of tropical African mountains. Through resprouting after fire, Erica establishes a positive fire feedback under certain burning regimes. However, present-day human activity in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia includes fire and grazing systems that may have a negative impact on the resilience of the ericaceous ecosystem. Current knowledge of Erica–fire relationships is based on studies of modern vegetation, lacking a longer time perspective that can shed light on baseline conditions for the fire feedback. We hypothesize that fire has influenced Erica communities in the Bale Mountains at millennial time-scales. To test this, we (1) identify the fire history of the Bale Mountains through a pollen and charcoal record from Garba Guracha, a lake at 3950 m a.s.l., and (2) describe the long-term bidirectional feedback between wildfire and Erica, which may control the ecosystem's resilience. Our results support fire occurrence in the area since ca. 14 000 years ago, with particularly intense burning during the early Holocene, 10.8–6.0 cal ka BP. We show that a positive feedback between Erica abundance and fire occurrence was in operation throughout the Lateglacial and Holocene, and interpret the Ericaceous Belt of the Ethiopian mountains as a long-term fire resilient ecosystem. We propose that controlled burning should be an integral part of landscape management in the Bale Mountains National Park.
5. ESM containing details on how chronological model was built and details on general methods. from Long-term fire resilience of the Ericaceous Belt, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
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Gil-Romera, Graciela, Adolf, Carole, Benito, Blas M., Bittner, Lucas, Johansson, Maria U., Grady, David A., Lamb, Henry F., Bruk Lemma, Mekbib Fekadu, Glaser, Bruno, Betelhem Mekonnen, Sevilla-Callejo, Miguel, Zech, Michael, Zech, Wolfgang, and Miehe, Georg
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2. Zero hunger ,15. Life on land - Abstract
Fire is the most frequent disturbance in the Ericaceous Belt (ca 3000–4300 m a.s.l.), one of the most important plant communities of tropical African mountains. Through resprouting after fire, Erica establishes a positive fire feedback under certain burning regimes. However, present-day human activity in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia includes fire and grazing systems that may have a negative impact on the resilience of the Ericaceous ecosystem. Current knowledge of Erica-fire relationships is based on studies of modern vegetation, lacking a longer time perspective that can shed light on baseline conditions for the fire feedback. We hypothesize that fire has influenced Erica communities in the Bale Mountains at millennial time-scales. To test this, we (1) identify the fire history of the Bale Mountains through a pollen and charcoal record from Garba Guracha, a lake at 3950 m a.s.l., and (2) describe the long-term bidirectional feedback between wildfire and Erica, which may control the ecosystem's resilience. Our results support fire occurrence in the area since ca. 14 000 years ago, with particularly intense burning during the early Holocene, 10.8–6.0 cal ka BP. We show that a positive feedback between Erica abundance and fire occurrence was in operation throughout the Lateglacial and Holocene, and interpret the Ericaceous Belt of the Ethiopian mountains as a long-term fire resilient ecosystem. We propose that controlled burning should be an integral part of landscape management in the Bale Mountains National Park.
6. ESM containing details on how chronological model was built and details on general methods. from Long-term fire resilience of the Ericaceous Belt, Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
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Gil-Romera, Graciela, Adolf, Carole, Benito, Blas M., Bittner, Lucas, Johansson, Maria U., Grady, David A., Lamb, Henry F., Bruk Lemma, Mekbib Fekadu, Glaser, Bruno, Betelhem Mekonnen, Sevilla-Callejo, Miguel, Zech, Michael, Zech, Wolfgang, and Miehe, Georg
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2. Zero hunger ,15. Life on land - Abstract
Fire is the most frequent disturbance in the Ericaceous Belt (ca 3000–4300 m a.s.l.), one of the most important plant communities of tropical African mountains. Through resprouting after fire, Erica establishes a positive fire feedback under certain burning regimes. However, present-day human activity in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia includes fire and grazing systems that may have a negative impact on the resilience of the ericaceous ecosystem. Current knowledge of Erica–fire relationships is based on studies of modern vegetation, lacking a longer time perspective that can shed light on baseline conditions for the fire feedback. We hypothesize that fire has influenced Erica communities in the Bale Mountains at millennial time-scales. To test this, we (1) identify the fire history of the Bale Mountains through a pollen and charcoal record from Garba Guracha, a lake at 3950 m a.s.l., and (2) describe the long-term bidirectional feedback between wildfire and Erica, which may control the ecosystem's resilience. Our results support fire occurrence in the area since ca. 14 000 years ago, with particularly intense burning during the early Holocene, 10.8–6.0 cal ka BP. We show that a positive feedback between Erica abundance and fire occurrence was in operation throughout the Lateglacial and Holocene, and interpret the Ericaceous Belt of the Ethiopian mountains as a long-term fire resilient ecosystem. We propose that controlled burning should be an integral part of landscape management in the Bale Mountains National Park.
7. Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal
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Stephan Opitz, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Walter Duesing, Ralf Vogelsang, Melanie J. Leng, Christine Lane, Frank Schaebitz, Jonathan R. Dean, Alan L. Deino, Andrew S. Cohen, Helen M. Roberts, Finn Viehberg, Martin H. Trauth, Melissa S. Chapot, Céline Vidal, Asfawossen Asrat, Henry F. Lamb, Verena Foerster, Annett Junginger, Ralph Tiedemann, Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr, Asrat, Asfawossen [0000-0002-6312-8082], Lamb, Henry F. [0000-0003-0025-0766], Foerster, Verena [0000-0002-3480-5769], Opitz, Stephan [0000-0003-0416-542X], Viehberg, Finn A. [0000-0003-0253-2222], Junginger, Annett [0000-0003-3486-0888], Ramsey, Christopher Bronk [0000-0002-8641-9309], Chapot, Melissa S. [0000-0001-7945-0175], Lane, Christine S. [0000-0001-9206-3903], Roberts, Helen M. [0000-0001-9649-2377], Vidal, Céline [0000-0002-9606-4513], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Asrat, A [0000-0002-6312-8082], Lamb, HF [0000-0003-0025-0766], Foerster, V [0000-0002-3480-5769], Opitz, S [0000-0003-0416-542X], Viehberg, FA [0000-0003-0253-2222], Junginger, A [0000-0003-3486-0888], Ramsey, CB [0000-0002-8641-9309], Chapot, MS [0000-0001-7945-0175], Lane, CS [0000-0001-9206-3903], Roberts, HM [0000-0001-9649-2377], and Vidal, C [0000-0002-9606-4513]
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13 Climate Action ,010506 paleontology ,Rift ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Ecology ,article ,Climate change ,37 Earth Sciences ,3705 Geology ,3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience ,704/286 ,01 natural sciences ,Arid ,Geography ,Habitat ,Lake basin ,Paleoclimatology ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Biological dispersal ,Montane ecology ,631/181/414 ,704/106/413 ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
Reconstructions of climatic and environmental conditions can contribute to current debates about the factors that influenced early human dispersal within and beyond Africa. Here we analyse a 200,000-year multi-proxy paleoclimate record from Chew Bahir, a tectonic lake basin in the southern Ethiopian rift. Our record reveals two modes of climate change, both associated temporally and regionally with a specific type of human behavior. The first is a long-term trend towards greater aridity between 200,000 and 60,000 years ago, modulated by precession-driven wet-dry cycles. Here, more favorable wetter environmental conditions may have facilitated long-range human expansion into new territory, while less favorable dry periods may have led to spatial constriction and isolation of local human populations. The second mode of climate change observed since 60,000 years ago mimics millennial to centennial-scale Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles and Heinrich events. We hypothesize that human populations may have responded to these shorter climate fluctuations with local dispersal between montane and lowland habitats.
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- 2021
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