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Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

Author(s) -

Ondřej Mottl,

Suzette Flantua,

Kuber Prasad Bhatta,

Vivian A. Felde,

Thomas Giesecke,

Simon Goring,

Eric C. Grimm,

Simon Haberle,

H. Hooghiemstra,

Sarah Ivory,

Petr Kuneš,

Steffen Wolters,

Alistair W. R. Seddon,

John W. Williams

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.abg1685

Subject(s) - holocene , vegetation (pathology) , climate change , physical geography , environmental change , glacial period , period (music) , global change , pollen , pace , geography , ecology , geology , oceanography , archaeology , paleontology , biology , medicine , physics , pathology , acoustics , geodesy

The pace of Holocene vegetation change Although much is known about the rapid environmental changes that have occurred since the Industrial Revolution, the patterns of change over the preceding millennia have been only patchily understood. Using a global set of >1100 fossil pollen records, Mottlet al. explored the rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years (see the Perspective by Overpeck and Breshears). The authors show that the rates of change accelerated markedly during the Late Holocene (∼4.6 to 2.9 thousand years ago), even more rapidly than the climate-driven vegetation changes associated with the end of the last glacial period. In addition, the Late Holocene acceleration began for terrestrial communities as a whole, suggesting that the acceleration in turnover over the past two centuries is the tip of a deeper trend.Science , abg1685, this issue p.860 ; see also abi9902, p.786

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