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

dc.contributor.authorSanchez Goni, M.F.
dc.contributor.authorDesprat, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorDaniau, A.-L.
dc.contributor.authorBassinot, Franck
dc.contributor.authorPolanco-Martinez, Josue M.
dc.contributor.authorHarrison, S. P.
dc.contributor.authorAllen, J. R. M.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, R. Scott
dc.contributor.authorBehling, Hermann
dc.contributor.authorBonnefille, Raymonde
dc.contributor.authorHope, Geoffrey
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-20T20:57:58Z
dc.date.available2020-12-20T20:57:58Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T11:14:13Z
dc.description.abstractQuaternary 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 (73–15 ka) with a temporal resolution better than 1000 years, 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 AccessTM at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870867.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1866-3508
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/218442
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherCopernicus Publications
dc.sourceEarth System Science Data
dc.titleThe ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage695
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage679
local.contributor.affiliationSanchez Goni, M.F., University of Bordeaux
local.contributor.affiliationDesprat, Stephanie, EPHE, PSL Research University
local.contributor.affiliationDaniau, A.-L., University of Bordeaux
local.contributor.affiliationBassinot, Franck, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL)
local.contributor.affiliationPolanco-Martinez, Josue M. , Universite de Bordeaux
local.contributor.affiliationHarrison, S. P., Macquarie University
local.contributor.affiliationAllen, J. R. M. , Durham University
local.contributor.affiliationAnderson, R. Scott, Northern Arizona University
local.contributor.affiliationBehling, Hermann, University of Gottingen
local.contributor.affiliationBonnefille, Raymonde, Aix-Marseille Universite
local.contributor.affiliationHope, Geoffrey, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu7800042@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidHope, Geoffrey, u7800042
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor040104 - Climate Change Processes
local.identifier.absseo960399 - Climate and Climate Change not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4351680xPUB140
local.identifier.citationvolume9
local.identifier.doi10.5194/essd-9-679-2017
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85029496423
local.identifier.thomsonID000410130200001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4351680
local.type.statusPublished Version

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