Biotic responses to rapid warming about 14,685 yr BP: Introduction to a case study at Gerzensee (Switzerland)

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• 作者：Brigitta Ammann ; Ulrich von Grafenstein ; Ulrike J. van Raden
• 关键词：Late-Glacial ; Biotic responses to rapid warming ; Bø ; lling warming ; Internal structure of the Bø ; lling/Allerø ; d ; Late-glacial timescale by correlation to NGRIP ; Southern Central Europe
• 刊名：Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• 出版年：1 December, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：391
• 期：part_PB
• 页码：3-12
• 全文大小：865 K

文摘

The late-glacial climatic warming indicated in the Greenland ice-core record about 14,685 years before 1950 AD belongs to a type of very rapid high-amplitude warming similar the onsets of Dansgaard-Oeschger events during marine isotope stage 3 (MIS 3). In order to estimate the nature and rates of change of biotic responses to such a major climatic shift we need a reliable time scale as well as climatic indicators independent of the biota. Both are provided by a high-resolution oxygen-isotope record from precipitated carbonates of lake marl in Gerzensee, Switzerland (). On the basis of the assumption of synchronous climatic changes between Greenland and Gerzensee, the close correlation of the oxygen-isotope changes at the two sites allows the use of the NGRIP GICC05-timescale at Gerzensee (with the zero point at 1950 AD to maintain comparability with the numerous radiocarbon dates in Europe). The 未¹⁸O-record measured in precipitated carbonates is checked and refined by the 未¹⁸O measured in mono-specific ostracod samples (). The shift of 3.6鈥?未¹⁸O PDB in only about 112 years at the end of the GS-2 represents a very rapid temperature increase of at least 6.2 掳C. This increase is confirmed by reconstructions based on transfer functions for pollen and chironomids by Lotter et al. (2012) (possibly 4-7 掳C in the annual mean and 2-5 掳C in summer temperatures). After this major shift the Greenland late-glacial interstadial GI-1 (corresponding to the regional biozones B酶lling and Aller酶d) 未¹⁸O-records of both Greenland and Gerzensee exhibit four minor fluctuations (about 1.0-1.2鈥?未¹⁸O), of which the second and the fourth are especially clearly correlated with several of terrestrial records in the northern hemisphere.

The oxygen-isotope record is used as a template for all these sediment- and bio-stratigraphies.

The biotic responses may include at least five types of process: (1) changes in productivity of individuals (within a year or two), (2) changes in populations (usually somewhat slower, depending on life cycles and environmental constraints), (3) changes due to migration (often rather slow, depending again on life cycles and environmental constraints), (4) changes in the terrestrial and aquatic communities and (5) changes on the level of ecosystems (including pedogenesis, nutrient cycling, and species interactions). These biotic responses to the early rapid warming about 14.685 ka BP are elaborated in subsequent papers for plants, chironomids, ostracods, and Cladocera (; Nov谩kov谩 et al., 2013-this issue). In addition, lake levels are reconstructed by and vegetation dynamics and N₂O-emissions are modelled (). The changes in the mammal fauna of the Swiss Plateau are summarized by .