Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record

JL Conroy, JT Overpeck, JE Cole, TM Shanahan… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
Paleoclimate records from the tropical Pacific suggest the early to mid-Holocene was a
period of reduced El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability, with a transition to …

Otolith science entering the 21st century

SE Campana - Marine and freshwater research, 2005 - CSIRO Publishing
A review of 862 otolith-oriented papers published since the time of the 1998 Otolith
Symposium in Bergen, Norway suggests that there has been a change in research …

Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana

D Tian, MB Traw, JQ Chen, M Kreitman, J Bergelson - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
Resistance genes (R-genes) act as an immune system in plants by recognizing pathogens
and inducing defensive pathways. Many R-gene loci are present in plant genomes …

El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years

B Rein, A Lückge, L Reinhardt, F Sirocko… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Here we present a high‐resolution marine sediment record from the El Niño region off the
coast of Peru spanning the last 20,000 years. Sea surface temperature, photosynthetic …

El Nino-like pattern in ice age tropical Pacific sea surface temperature

A Koutavas, J Lynch-Stieglitz, TM Marchitto Jr… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the cold tongue of the eastern equatorial Pacific exert
powerful controls on global atmospheric circulation patterns. We examined climate …

Late Quaternary fire regimes of Australasia

SD Mooney, SP Harrison, PJ Bartlein… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
We have compiled 223 sedimentary charcoal records from Australasia in order to examine
the temporal and spatial variability of fire regimes during the Late Quaternary. While some of …

Holocene history of ENSO variance and asymmetry in the eastern tropical Pacific

M Carré, JP Sachs, S Purca, AJ Schauer, P Braconnot… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Understanding the response of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to global warming
requires quantitative data on ENSO under different climate regimes. Here, we present a …

Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum

FE Mayle, DJ Beerling… - … Transactions of the …, 2004 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The aims of this paper are to review previously published palaeovegetation and
independent palaeoclimatic datasets together with new results we present from dynamic …

Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity

N Brooks - Quaternary International, 2006 - Elsevier
The first complex, highly organised, state-level societies emerged in the Afro-Asiatic
monsoon belt and northern South America during the 6th and early 5th millennia BP. This …

Shell midden sclerochronology

CFT Andrus - Quaternary science reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Sclerochronological analysis of shell midden faunal remains offers a unique opportunity to
study climate and environmental change in relation to human activity. Middens exist near …