2015
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615574583
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A multi-proxy record of hydroclimate, vegetation, fire, and post-settlement impacts for a subalpine plateau, central Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

Abstract: Apparent changes in vegetation distribution, fire, and other disturbance regimes throughout western North America have prompted investigations of the relative importance of human activities and climate change as potential causal mechanisms. Assessing the effects of Euro-American settlement is difficult because climate changes occur on multi-decadal to centennial time scales and require longer time perspectives than historic observations can provide. Here, we report vegetation and environmental changes over the… Show more

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“…During the early and middle Holocene, climate inferred from paleoecological studies in the Rocky Mountain region was characterized as warm with increased precipitation. This period of warming was followed by cooling with increases in winter precipitation during the late Holocene (Anderson, 2011;Anderson et al, 2015Anderson et al, , 2016Calder et al, 2019;Jiménez-Moreno et al, 2011;Jiménez-Moreno and Anderson, 2013). These findings were consistent with other reconstructions in the Rocky Mountain region (Table 1.2), and these studies attribute the combined effects of orbital oscillations and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as the main driver of changes in temperature and precipitation balance throughout the Holocene (Anderson et al, 2016;Jiménez-Moreno et al, 2011).…”
Section: Climate Reconstructions From Paleoecological Records In the supporting
confidence: 83%
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“…During the early and middle Holocene, climate inferred from paleoecological studies in the Rocky Mountain region was characterized as warm with increased precipitation. This period of warming was followed by cooling with increases in winter precipitation during the late Holocene (Anderson, 2011;Anderson et al, 2015Anderson et al, , 2016Calder et al, 2019;Jiménez-Moreno et al, 2011;Jiménez-Moreno and Anderson, 2013). These findings were consistent with other reconstructions in the Rocky Mountain region (Table 1.2), and these studies attribute the combined effects of orbital oscillations and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) as the main driver of changes in temperature and precipitation balance throughout the Holocene (Anderson et al, 2016;Jiménez-Moreno et al, 2011).…”
Section: Climate Reconstructions From Paleoecological Records In the supporting
confidence: 83%
“…Some reconstructions are focused on capturing post glacial vegetation establishment with paleoecological datasets that span the entire Holocene (~ 11,000 years) (e.g. Anderson et al, 2015;Carter et al, 2013;Jiménez-Moreno et al, 2011; Jiménez-Moreno and Anderson, 2013;Minckley et al, 2012), while other datasets are centered around smaller timeframes to capture specific events like the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age, and other brief periods of climate variation during the late Holocene from about 7000 calibrated years before 1950 AD (cal yr BP) to present (e.g. Caffrey and Doerner, 2012;Calder and Shuman, 2017;Dunnette et al, 2014;Leys et al, 2016).…”
Section: Paleoecological Findings From Rocky Mountain Subalpine Lakesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Proxy and instrumental records of cold and warm season precipitation amounts show that the two generally vary independently of one another [ Crawford et al , ; Griffin et al , ; Dannenberg and Wise , ; Anderson et al , ] (supporting information Figure S6). However, an analysis of seasonal precipitation trends over the last three decades shows declines in both snowpack and summer rain that has resulted in region‐wide stability in their relative contributions to annual precipitation (supporting information Figure S7).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%