A review of Glacial and Holocene paleoclimate records from southernmost Patagonia (49–55 S)

R Kilian, F Lamy - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Southern South America is the only landmass intersecting the southern westerly wind belt
(SWW) that influences the large-scale oceanography and controls for example the …

Millennial-scale variability in Southern Hemisphere westerly wind activity over the last 5000 years in SW Patagonia

PI Moreno, JP François, RP Villa-Martínez… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Here we report results from a high-resolution palynological record and stratigraphic/
geochronologic data related to a Neoglacial event in Torres del Paine National Park …

From the Holocene to the Anthropocene: A historical framework for land cover change in southwestern South America in the past 15,000 years

JJ Armesto, D Manuschevich, A Mora… - Land use policy, 2010 - Elsevier
The main forest transitions that took place in south-central Chile from the end of the last
glaciation to the present are reviewed here with the aim of identifying the main climatic and …

Integrating ecology and environmental ethics: Earth stewardship in the southern end of the Americas

R Rozzi, JJ Armesto, JR Gutiérrez, F Massardo… - …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The South American temperate and sub-Antarctic forests cover the longest
latitudinal range in the Southern Hemisphere and include the world's southernmost forests …

Have the Southern Westerlies changed in a zonally symmetric manner over the last 14,000 years? A hemisphere-wide take on a controversial problem

MS Fletcher, PI Moreno - Quaternary International, 2012 - Elsevier
The prevailing view in the palaeoclimate literature of the last 20 years is that the Southern
Westerly Winds (SWW) were intensified over southern Australia and Tasmania during the …

Holocene tephrochronology record of large explosive eruptions in the southernmost Patagonian Andes

CR Stern - Bulletin of Volcanology, 2008 - Springer
For regionally widespread Holocene tephra layers in southernmost Patagonia, correlations
based on both chemical and chronological data indicate their derivation from five large …

Combination of humans, climate, and vegetation change triggered Late Quaternary megafauna extinction in the Última Esperanza region, southern Patagonia, Chile

NA Villavicencio, EL Lindsey, FM Martin… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
South America lost around 52 genera of mammals during a worldwide event known as the
Late Quaternary Extinction episode. More than 80% of South American mammals weighing> …

Covariability of the Southern Westerlies and atmospheric CO2 during the Holocene

PI Moreno, JP Francois, CM Moy… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A suite of mechanisms has been proposed to account for natural variations in atmospheric
CO2 during the Holocene; all of which have achieved limited success in reproducing the …

[HTML][HTML] Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphy of southern Chile and Argentina

K Fontijn, SM Lachowycz, H Rawson, DM Pyle… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern and Austral Volcanic Zones of the Andes comprise 74 volcanic
centres with known post-glacial activity. At least 21 of these have had one or more large …

Late and postglacial vegetation and fire history in Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego

V Markgraf, UM Huber - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Two 17,000-yr-old peat bog records from low-elevation sites in Tierra del Fuego (Harberton,
54° 54′ S) and southern Patagonia (Río Rubens, 52° 4′ 48 ″S) and one c. 14,000 calyr …