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High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period

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  • Patrick Rioual

    (Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London)

  • Valérie Andrieu-Ponel

    (Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie (UMR-CNRS 6116), UDESAM, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint Jérôme)

  • Miri Rietti-Shati

    (The Weizmann Institute of Science)

  • Richard W. Battarbee

    (Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London)

  • Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu

    (Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie (UMR-CNRS 6116), UDESAM, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint Jérôme)

  • Rachid Cheddadi

    (Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie (UMR-CNRS 6116), UDESAM, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint Jérôme)

  • Maurice Reille

    (Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et Paléoécologie (UMR-CNRS 6116), UDESAM, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de Saint Jérôme)

  • Helena Svobodova

    (Botanical Institute, CZ-25243 Pruhonice)

  • Aldo Shemesh

    (The Weizmann Institute of Science)

Abstract

The last interglacial period (127–110 kyr ago) has been considered to be an analogue to the present interglacial period, the Holocene, which may help us to understand present climate evolution. But whereas Holocene climate has been essentially stable in Europe, variability in climate during the last interglacial period has remained unresolved, because climate reconstructions from ice cores1,2, continental records3,4 and marine sediment cores5,6 give conflicting results for this period7. Here we present a high-resolution multi-proxy lacustrine record of climate change during the last interglacial period, based on oxygen isotopes in diatom silica, diatom assemblages and pollen–climate transfer functions from the Ribains maar in France. Contrary to a previous study8, our data do not show a cold event interrupting the warm interglacial climate. Instead, we find an early temperature maximum with a transition to a colder climate about halfway through the sequence. The end of the interglacial period is clearly marked by an abrupt change in all proxy records. Our study confirms that in southwestern Europe the last interglacial period was a time of climatic stability and is therefore still likely to represent a useful analogue for the present climate.

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  • Patrick Rioual & Valérie Andrieu-Ponel & Miri Rietti-Shati & Richard W. Battarbee & Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu & Rachid Cheddadi & Maurice Reille & Helena Svobodova & Aldo Shemesh, 2001. "High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period," Nature, Nature, vol. 413(6853), pages 293-296, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:413:y:2001:i:6853:d:10.1038_35095037
    DOI: 10.1038/35095037
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    1. Yajie Dong & Naiqin Wu & Fengjiang Li & Dan Zhang & Yueting Zhang & Caiming Shen & Houyuan Lu, 2022. "The Holocene temperature conundrum answered by mollusk records from East Asia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.

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