Late-Glacial and Holocene Record of Lake Levels of Mathews Pond and Whitehead Lake, Northern Maine, USA

Dieffenbacher-Krall, Ann C.; Nurse, Andrea M

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“…Hydroclimatic reconstructions for the last 3000 years for the NE US and adjacent regions, sourced from diverse paleoclimatic proxies and archives. (a) Tree-ring-based reconstructions of PDSI (Cook et al, 2010); (b) composite index of two varve thickness records from Green Lake, New York, and the Pettaquamscutt River Estuary, Rhode Island (Hubeny et al, 2011); (c) drought events (marked with "+") and event summary based on water table reconstructions from testate amoeba in western kettle-hole peatlands (Pinhook and South Rhody), western bogs (Irwin Smith and Minden), and eastern bogs (Sidney, Saco, and Great Heath; Booth and Jackson, 2003;Booth et al, 2006Booth et al, , 2012Clifford and Booth, 2013); (d) bog record counts; (e) ratio of Sphagnum to vascular plants from the Great Heath Bog, Maine (Nichols and Huang, 2012); (f) drought indicator based on isothermal remanent magnetization at White Lake, New Jersey (Li et al, 2007); (g) lake level reconstructions from Deep, Davis, and New Long ponds in Massachusetts (Marsicek et al, 2013;Newby et al, 2014) and lake level change estimates from Mathews Pond and Whitehead Lake, Maine (Dieffenbacher-Krall and Nurse, 2005); and (h) precipitation and P -E rate anomalies from the TraCE-21k simulations (Liu et al, 2009). Vertical gray bands are only provided as a visual aid to identify the timing of features in the records.…”

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Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

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Abstract. Many ecosystem processes that influence Earth system feedbacks -vegetation growth, water and nutrient cycling, disturbance regimes -are strongly influenced by multidecadal-to millennial-scale climate variations that cannot be directly observed. Paleoclimate records provide information about these variations, forming the basis of our understanding and modeling of them. Fossil pollen records are abundant in the NE US, but cannot simultaneously provide information about paleoclimate and past vegetation in a modeling context because this leads to circular logic. If pollen data are used to constrain past vegetation changes, then the remaining paleoclimate archives in the northeastern US (NE US) are quite limited. Nonetheless, a growing number of diverse reconstructions have been developed but have not yet been examined together. Here we conduct a systematic review, assessment, and comparison of paleotemperature and paleohydrological proxies from the NE US for the last 3000 years. Regional temperature reconstructions (primarily summer) show a long-term cooling trend (1000 BCE-1700 CE) consistent with hemispheric-scale reconstructions, while hydroclimate data show gradually wetter conditions through the present day. Multiple proxies suggest that a prolonged, widespread drought occurred between 550 and 750 CE. Dry conditions are also evident during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, which was warmer and drier than the Little Ice Age and drier than today. There is some evidence for an acceleration of the longer-term wetting trend in the NE US during the past century; coupled with an abrupt shift from decreasing to increasing temperatures in the past century, these changes could have wide-ranging implications for species distributions, ecosystem dynamics, and extreme weather events. More work is needed to gather paleoclimate data in the NE US to make inter-proxy comparisons and to improve estimates of uncertainty in reconstructions.

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Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

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“…Records from the region show multi-millennial trends in water levels with lower-than-modern levels from 11.0-8.0 cal ka BP, intermediate levels from 8.0-5.5 cal ka BP, low levels from 5.5-3.0 cal ka BP and high levels from 3.0 cal ka BP to present (Almquist et al, 2001;Dieffenbacher-Krall and Nurse, 2005;Newby et al, 2000;Shuman et al, 2001Shuman et al, , 2005Webb et al, 1993). More recent work has emphasized the potential for sub-millennial scale hydroclimate variation within this regional framework.…”

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Repeated century-scale droughts over the past 13,000 yr near the Hudson River watershed, USA

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Sediment and ground-penetrating radar data from Davis Pond near the Hudson River valley reveal past droughts in a historically humid region that presently supplies water to millions of people in and around New York City. A minimum of eleven sandy paleoshoreline deposits in the lake date from 13.4-0.6 cal ka BP. The deposits span 1500 to 200 years between bracketing radiocarbon dates, and intrude into lacustrine silts up to 9.0 m below the modern lake surface in a transect of six cores. Three lowstands, ca. 13.4-10.9, 9.2 and 8.2 cal ka BP indicate low regional moisture balance when low temperatures affected the North Atlantic region. Consistent with insolation trends, water levels rose from ca. 8.0 cal ka BP to present, but five low stands interrupted the rise and are likely associated with ocean-atmosphere interactions. Similar to evidence from other studies, the data from Davis Pond indicate repeated multi-century periods of prolonged or frequent droughts super-imposed on long-term regional trends toward high water levels. The patterns indicate that water supplies in this heavily populated region have continuously varied at multiple time scales, and confirm that humid regions such as the northeastern USA are more prone to severe drought than historically expected.

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“…Analysis of plant macroremains is one of the most important and frequently used methods for inferring past environmental change (Dieffenbacher-Krall and Nurse 2005;Rasmussen and Anderson 2005;Birks 2007;Nita and Szymczyk 2010;Hrynowiecka and Szymczyk 2011). Increasingly, paleoecological methods are used to obtain valuable data for conservation and restoration of lacustrine ecosystems (Konieczna and Kowalewski 2009).…”

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Algal mats transport diaspores and carpological remains in shallow lakes

Szymczyk

2016

J Paleolimnol

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Algal mats in lakes and reservoirs can transport diaspores and carpological remains of plants, and thus may influence the creation of taphocoenoses. In 2012, I quantified carpological remains in two types of algal mats from a small reservoir in southern Poland. Mats formed by filamentous algae participate primarily in the original transport of diaspores, and can influence their concentration and facilitate their migration, mainly between the shores of the reservoir. Diatom mats partake primarily in diaspore redeposition, but can also cause their dispersal between the shore zone and the central part of the reservoir. This research demonstrates that mats built by diatoms contain far more remains and are more biologically diverse than filamentous algal mats. Movement of carpological remains observed in both types of algal mats points to their role in the formation of taphocoenoses and suggests that algal mats must be considered when interpreting macrofossil records.

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Late-Glacial and Holocene Record of Lake Levels of Mathews Pond and Whitehead Lake, Northern Maine, USA

Cited by 40 publications

References 60 publications

Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

Climatic history of the northeastern United States during the past 3000 years

Repeated century-scale droughts over the past 13,000 yr near the Hudson River watershed, USA

Algal mats transport diaspores and carpological remains in shallow lakes

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