A late-glacial transition from Picea glauca to Picea mariana in southern New England
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Picea is an important taxon in late-glacial pollen records from eastern North America, but little is known about which species of Picea were present. We apply a recently developed palynological method for discriminating the three Picea species in eastern North America to three records from New England. Picea glauca was dominant at ∼14,500–14,000 cal yr BP, followed by a transition to Picea mariana between ∼14,000 and 13,500 cal yr BP. Comparison of the pollen data with hydrogen isotope data shows clearly that this transition began before the beginning of the Younger Dryas Chronozone. The ecological changes of the late-glacial interval were not a simple oscillation in the position of a single species' range, but rather major changes in vegetation structure and composition occurring during an interval of variations in several environmental factors, including climate, edaphic conditions, and atmospheric CO2 levels.
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- Lindbladh, M., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Faison, E. K., Hou, J., & Huang, Y.
- Affiliations
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)
- Harvard University (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lindbladh, Matts
- Venue
- Quaternary Research
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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- 2007-05
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- 67
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- 3
- Pages
- 502-508
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- 1096-0287
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil and Environmental Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tree-ring climate responses
- Keywords
- Picea glauca, black spruce, Younger Dryas, Holocene transition, southern New England, pollen record, hydrogen isotopes, paleoclimate, atmospheric CO2, soil conditions, boreal forest
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