An 8700 year paleoclimate reconstruction from the southern Maya lowlands

D Wahl, R Byrne, L Anderson - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of a sediment core from Lago Puerto Arturo, a closed basin lake in
northern Peten, Guatemala, has provided an∼ 8700 cal year record of climate change and …

Late Holocene hydroclimate variability in Costa Rica: Signature of the terminal classic drought and the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the northern tropical Americas

J Wu, DF Porinchu, SP Horn - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
In the northern tropical Americas (Neotropics), notable hydrological variability has been
documented in multi-proxy paleoclimate records between∼ 600 and 1200 CE. This interval …

The Páramo ecosystem of Costa Rica's highlands

M Kappelle, SP Horn - Costa Rican Ecosystems, 2016 - degruyter.com
Páramo is a grass-or shrub-dominated ecosystem that occupies the cool and wet upper
slopes of tropical mountains, at alpine elevations above the timber or tree line and below the …

Lakes in Costa Rica

SP Horn, G Umaña-Villalobos, KA Haberyan - Landscapes and Landforms …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Lakes occur throughout Costa Rica, in a variety of geomorphic settings. Nearly
every possible mode of lake formation has occurred, involving processes related to …

Insight into the stable isotopic composition of glacial lakes in a tropical alpine ecosystem: C hirripó, C osta R ica

G Esquivel‐Hernández… - Hydrological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical high‐elevation lakes are considered sentinels of global climate change. This work
characterizes the hydrological conditions of tropical alpine glacial lakes located in the …

Plant wax evidence for precipitation and vegetation change from a coastal sinkhole lake in the Bahamas spanning the last 3000 years

AE Tamalavage, PJ van Hengstum, P Louchouarn… - Organic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant wax hydrogen isotopic composition is commonly used to reconstruct the hydrogen
isotopic composition of precipitation used by terrestrial vegetation. However, mangroves …

Holocene climate variability and anthropogenic impacts from Lago Paixban, a perennial wetland in Peten, Guatemala

D Wahl, RD Hansen, R Byrne, L Anderson… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Analyses of an~ 6 m sediment core from Lago Paixban in Peten, Guatemala, document the
complex evolution of a perennial wetland over the last 10,300 years. The basal sediment is …

Compound-specific stable carbon and hydrogen isotope analyses of late-Holocene vegetation and precipitation change at Laguna Los Mangos, Costa Rica

EA Yanuskiewicz, CS Lane, SP Horn… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
New compound-specific isotope analyses of a sediment core from Laguna Los Mangos in
southern Pacific Costa Rica improves understanding of late-Holocene precipitation change …

Depositional histories of vegetation and rainfall intensity in Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains (northeast Mexico) since the late Last Glacial

PD Roy, G Vera-Vera, JL Sánchez-Zavala… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
An evaporite enriched sediment archive from the dry Sandia Basin located in the water-
stressed western foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains (northeast Mexico) was …

Cosmogenic Cl-36 surface exposure dating of late Quaternary glacial events in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica

R Potter, Y Li, SP Horn, KH Orvis - Quaternary Research, 2019 - cambridge.org
Geomorphic evidence of past glaciation, such as U-shaped valleys, aretes, glacial lakes,
and moraines, is preserved in the highland surrounding Cerro Chirripó in the Cordillera de …