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The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period

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Goñi, MFS; Desprat, S; Daniau, AL; Bassinot, FC; Polanco-Martínez, JM; Harrison, SP; Allen, JRM; Scott Anderson, R; Behling, H; Bonnefille, R ...
Published in: Earth System Science Data
September 11, 2017

Quaternary records provide an opportunity to examine the nature of the vegetation and fire responses to rapid past climate changes comparable in velocity and magnitude to those expected in the 21st-century. The best documented examples of rapid climate change in the past are the warming events associated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles during the last glacial period, which were sufficiently large to have had a potential feedback through changes in albedo and greenhouse gas emissions on climate. Previous reconstructions of vegetation and fire changes during the D-O cycles used independently constructed age models, making it difficult to compare the changes between different sites and regions. Here, we present the ACER (Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses) global database, which includes 93 pollen records from the last glacial period (73-15ka) with a temporal resolution better than 1000years, 32 of which also provide charcoal records. A harmonized and consistent chronology based on radiometric dating (14C, 234U/230Th, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), 40Ar/39Ar-dated tephra layers) has been constructed for 86 of these records, although in some cases additional information was derived using common control points based on event stratigraphy. The ACER database compiles metadata including geospatial and dating information, pollen and charcoal counts, and pollen percentages of the characteristic biomes and is archived in Microsoft Access™ at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870867.

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Earth System Science Data

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1866-3516

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1866-3508

Publication Date

September 11, 2017

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9

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2

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679 / 695

Related Subject Headings

  • 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience
  • 3704 Geoinformatics
  • 3701 Atmospheric sciences
  • 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
  • 0402 Geochemistry
  • 0401 Atmospheric Sciences
 

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Goñi, M. F. S., Desprat, S., Daniau, A. L., Bassinot, F. C., Polanco-Martínez, J. M., Harrison, S. P., … Yamamoto, M. (2017). The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 679–695. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017
Goñi, M. F. S., S. Desprat, A. L. Daniau, F. C. Bassinot, J. M. Polanco-Martínez, S. P. Harrison, J. R. M. Allen, et al. “The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period.” Earth System Science Data 9, no. 2 (September 11, 2017): 679–95. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017.
Goñi MFS, Desprat S, Daniau AL, Bassinot FC, Polanco-Martínez JM, Harrison SP, et al. The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data. 2017 Sep 11;9(2):679–95.
Goñi, M. F. S., et al. “The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period.” Earth System Science Data, vol. 9, no. 2, Sept. 2017, pp. 679–95. Scopus, doi:10.5194/essd-9-679-2017.
Goñi MFS, Desprat S, Daniau AL, Bassinot FC, Polanco-Martínez JM, Harrison SP, Allen JRM, Scott Anderson R, Behling H, Bonnefille R, Burjachs F, Carrión JS, Cheddadi R, Clark JS, Combourieu-Nebout N, Mustaphi CJC, Debusk GH, Dupont LM, Finch JM, Fletcher WJ, Giardini M, González C, Gosling WD, Grigg LD, Grimm EC, Hayashi R, Helmens K, Heusser LE, Hill T, Hope G, Huntley B, Igarashi Y, Irino T, Jacobs B, Jiménez-Moreno G, Kawai S, Peter Kershaw A, Kumon F, Lawson IT, Ledru MP, Lézine AM, Mei Liew P, Magri D, Marchant R, Margari V, Mayle FE, Merna Mckenzie G, Moss P, Müller S, Müller UC, Naughton F, Newnham RM, Oba T, Pérez-Obiol R, Pini R, Ravazzi C, Roucoux KH, Rucina SM, Scott L, Takahara H, Tzedakis PC, Urrego DH, Van Geel B, Guido Valencia B, Vandergoes MJ, Vincens A, Whitlock CL, Willard DA, Yamamoto M. The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data. 2017 Sep 11;9(2):679–695.

Published In

Earth System Science Data

DOI

EISSN

1866-3516

ISSN

1866-3508

Publication Date

September 11, 2017

Volume

9

Issue

2

Start / End Page

679 / 695

Related Subject Headings

  • 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience
  • 3704 Geoinformatics
  • 3701 Atmospheric sciences
  • 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
  • 0402 Geochemistry
  • 0401 Atmospheric Sciences