Historical Environmental Change in the Tropics

Endfield, Georgina H.; Marks, Robert B.

doi:10.1002/9781118336311.ch10

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“…However, very abrupt changes in the vertical pattern of peat and carbonate deposits suggest that the mangroves drowned fairly quickly ( Fig. 1), supporting other evidence of rapid sea-level change about 9-11 kp BP [12]. Buried mangrove peats lie in other coastal waters, such in the Caribbean [13] and the northern Indian Ocean [23].…”

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“…Since their evolution and dispersal, mangroves have endured numerous climatic events up to the present day. During the Quaternary, mangroves experienced a sea level that was 120-125 m lower than present at the Last Glacial Maximum, with two periods of very rapid rise (>20 m) at both 14 and 11 ky BP as a result of quite abrupt climatic shifts during the transition from the last glacial into the present interglacial [12].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mangrove Forests

Alongi

2015

Curr Clim Change Rep

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Mangrove forests have survived a number of catastrophic climate events since first appearing along the shores of the Tethys Sea during the late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary. The existence of mangrove peat deposits worldwide attests to past episodes of local and regional extinction, primarily in response to abrupt, rapid rises in sea level. Occupying a harsh margin between land and sea, most mangrove plants and associated organisms are predisposed to be either resilient or resistant to most environmental change. Based on the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts, mangrove forests along arid coasts, in subsiding river deltas, and on many islands are predicted to decline in area, structural complexity, and/or in functionality, but mangroves will continue to expand polewards. It is highly likely that they will survive into the foreseeable future as sea level, global temperatures, and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations continue to rise.

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mangrove Forests

Alongi

2015

Curr Clim Change Rep

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“…In general terms, the last 2000 years is marked by highly variable conditions, associated with the historical records should be exploited more often (Endfield and Marks, 2012). In addition to their value to palaeoclimatology, such historical records are invaluable for assessing the impacts of climate change and the resilience of different societies, which is of such interest today.…”

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The Holocene history of the North American Monsoon: ‘known knowns’ and ‘known unknowns’ in understanding its spatial and temporal complexity

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Davies

2015

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate models.Patterns of change at 12,000, 9000, 6000 and 4000 cal yr BP are presented to capture the nature of change from the Younger Dryas (YD) and through the mid-Holocene. At the YD, conditions were cooler overall, wetter in the north and drier in the south, while moving into the Holocene

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“…The meteorologist Zhu Kezhen pioneered the use of such "oracle stones" and other sources (Fig. 3) in the early 1970s to conclude that the period 3000 to 1000 BC was generally warmer than the twentieth century (Endfield and Marks 2012).…”

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