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48,000 Years of Climate and Forest Change in a Biodiversity Hot Spot

Bush, Mark B., Silman, Miles R., Urrego, Dunia H.·2004·Science

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A continuous 48,000-year-long paleoecological record from Neotropical lower montane forest reveals a consistent forest presence and an ice-age cooling of ∼5° to 9°C. After 30,000 years of compositional stability, a steady turnover of species marks the 8000-year-long transition from ice-age to Holocene conditions. Although the changes were directional, the rates of community change were no different during this transitional period than in the preceding 30,000-year period of community stability. The warming rate of about 1°C per millennium during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition was an order of magnitude less than the projected changes for the 21st century.

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Authors
Bush, M. B., Silman, M. R., & Urrego, D. H.
Venue
Science
Published
2004-02-06
Volume
303
Issue
5659
Pages
827-829
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
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W2030000987
Cited by
379
References
2
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15.41
Type
journal article
Language
en
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