Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack
Seven published and four new pollen records from well-dated sediment cores from six Pleistocene and Holocene maar structures located in the Eifel, Germany, are combined to a pollen stack that covers the entire last 132,000 years. This stack is complemented by new macroremain data from one additional...
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| description | Seven published and four new pollen records from well-dated sediment cores from six Pleistocene and Holocene maar structures located in the Eifel, Germany, are combined to a pollen stack that covers the entire last 132,000 years. This stack is complemented by new macroremain data from one additional sediment core. The pollen data included into the stack show consistently that the Eifel was covered by a dense forest during the Eemian, early Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3, and the Holocene. While other European records indeed indicate a warming, the early MIS 3 fully developed forest remains a unique feature in central European pollen records. Comparison to orbital parameters and insolation hints to warm and humid, however, not fully interglacial conditions, which are also visible in speleothem growth throughout Europe. With the cooling trend towards the glacial maxima of MIS 4 and 2, tree pollen declined, with recovering phases during MIS 5c and 5a, as well as during all MIS 3 interglacials. During the colder stadials, steppe vegetation expanded. For MIS 5 and 4, we defined six new landscape evolution zones based on pollen and macroremains. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e3031b70cf3a46c2a52d89324ee2b7792024-03-27T14:01:53ZengMDPI AGQuaternary2571-550X2024-02-0171810.3390/quat7010008Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-StackSarah Britzius0Frank Dreher1Patricia Maisel2Frank Sirocko3Department of Isotope Geochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, GermanyDepartment of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, GermanyDepartment of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, GermanyDepartment of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, 55128 Mainz, GermanySeven published and four new pollen records from well-dated sediment cores from six Pleistocene and Holocene maar structures located in the Eifel, Germany, are combined to a pollen stack that covers the entire last 132,000 years. This stack is complemented by new macroremain data from one additional sediment core. The pollen data included into the stack show consistently that the Eifel was covered by a dense forest during the Eemian, early Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3, and the Holocene. While other European records indeed indicate a warming, the early MIS 3 fully developed forest remains a unique feature in central European pollen records. Comparison to orbital parameters and insolation hints to warm and humid, however, not fully interglacial conditions, which are also visible in speleothem growth throughout Europe. With the cooling trend towards the glacial maxima of MIS 4 and 2, tree pollen declined, with recovering phases during MIS 5c and 5a, as well as during all MIS 3 interglacials. During the colder stadials, steppe vegetation expanded. For MIS 5 and 4, we defined six new landscape evolution zones based on pollen and macroremains.https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/7/1/8ELSA-23-Pollen-StackpollenELSA projectEifel maarlandscape evolution zonesMarine Isotope Stages 5-1 |
| spellingShingle | Sarah Britzius Frank Dreher Patricia Maisel Frank Sirocko Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack Quaternary ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack pollen ELSA project Eifel maar landscape evolution zones Marine Isotope Stages 5-1 |
| title | Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack |
| title_full | Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack |
| title_fullStr | Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack |
| title_short | Vegetation Patterns during the Last 132,000 Years: A Synthesis from Twelve Eifel Maar Sediment Cores (Germany): The ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack |
| title_sort | vegetation patterns during the last 132 000 years a synthesis from twelve eifel maar sediment cores germany the elsa 23 pollen stack |
| topic | ELSA-23-Pollen-Stack pollen ELSA project Eifel maar landscape evolution zones Marine Isotope Stages 5-1 |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/7/1/8 |
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