Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in NE Asia

Climate is broadly assumed to control vegetation, with vegetation lags thought to last no more than a few centuries. Here, based on the analysis of Lake El’gygytgyn pollen record, the authors show that vegetation-climate disequilibrium persisted for several millennia during the Plio-Pleistocene tran...

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Main Authors: Ulrike Herzschuh, H. John B. Birks, Thomas Laepple, Andrei Andreev, Martin Melles, Julie Brigham-Grette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11967