Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowland Central America during the last 86,000 years

A Correa-Metrio, MB Bush, KR Cabrera, S Sully… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Glacial–interglacial climate cycles are known to have triggered migrations and
reassortments of tropical biota. Although long-term precessionally-driven changes in …

A∼ 43-ka record of paleoenvironmental change in the Central American lowlands inferred from stable isotopes of lacustrine ostracods

J Escobar, DA Hodell, M Brenner, JH Curtis… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
We present a continuous ostracod isotope (δ18O and δ13C) record from Lake Petén Itzá,
Petén, Guatemala, in the northern, lowland Neotropics that spans the last∼ 43 cal ka BP …

[图书][B] The Maya forest garden: Eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

A Ford, R Nigh - 2016 - books.google.com
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

The role of glacial cycles in promoting genetic diversity in the Neotropics: the case of cloud forests during the Last Glacial Maximum

S Ramírez‐Barahona, LE Eguiarte - Ecology and evolution, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing aridity during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been proposed as a
major factor affecting Neotropical species. The character and intensity of this change …

Sedimentary evolution and environmental history of L ake V an (T urkey) over the past 600 000 years

M Stockhecke, M Sturm, I Brunner… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The lithostratigraphic framework of L ake V an, eastern T urkey, has been systematically
analysed to document the sedimentary evolution and the environmental history of the lake …

A 400-ka tephrochronological framework for Central America from Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala) sediments

S Kutterolf, JC Schindlbeck, FS Anselmetti… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Lake Petén Itzá, northern Guatemala, lies within a hydrologically closed basin in the
south-central area of the Yucatán Peninsula, and was drilled under the auspices of the …

Late Glacial temperature and precipitation changes in the lowland Neotropics by tandem measurement of δ18O in biogenic carbonate and gypsum hydration water

DA Hodell, AV Turchyn, CJ Wiseman, J Escobar… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
We applied a new method to reconstruct paleotemperature in the tropics during the last
deglaciation by measuring oxygen isotopes of co-occurring gypsum hydration water and …

Ecological turnover in neotropical freshwater and terrestrial communities during episodes of abrupt climate change

L Pérez, A Correa-Metrio, S Cohuo… - Quaternary …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The last 85,000 years were characterized by high climate and environmental variability on
the Yucatán Peninsula. Heinrich stadials are examples of abrupt climate transitions that …

An Atlas of mass‐transport deposits in lakes

M Sammartini, J Moernaut… - … from outcrops to …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mass‐transport deposits (MTDs) and related turbidites are common features in lacustrine
environments and are intercalated within uniform lacustrine background sedimentation …

Quantitative estimates of tropical temperature change in lowland Central America during the last 42 ka

AL Grauel, DA Hodell, SM Bernasconi - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Determining the magnitude of tropical temperature change during the last glacial period is a
fundamental problem in paleoclimate research. Large discrepancies exist in estimates of …