caa a22 4500 467918376 CHVBK 20180406152909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-9048-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-9048-z Synchronicity in Climate and Vegetation Transitions Between Europe and North America During the Holocene [Elektronische Daten] [K. Gajewski, André Viau, Michael Sawada, David Atkinson, Philippe Fines] Interpreting the postglacial climate history of the European continent using pollen data has proven difficult due in part to human modification of the landscape. Separating climate from human-caused changes in the vegetation requires a strategy for determining times of change across the entire region. We quantified transitions in the vegetation across Europe during the past 12,000 years using a mixture model approach on two datasets: radiocarbon dates from pollen diagrams and zone boundaries from selected reference sites. Major transitions in the vegetation, as recorded in pollen diagrams, appear synchronous across the continent. These transitions were also synchronous with those identified in North America pollen diagrams and major environmental changes recorded in North Atlantic marine records and Greenland ice cores. This synchronicity suggests that the major vegetation transitions in Europe during the Holocene and late glacial were primarily caused by large-scale atmospheric circulation change. These climate changes may have caused some of the cultural, political and migration changes in European societies during the Holocene. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Gajewski K. Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Viau André Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Sawada Michael Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Atkinson David Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Fines Philippe Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2-4(2006-10-01), 341-361 0165-0009 78:2-4<341 2006 78 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9048-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9048-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gajewski K. Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Viau André Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sawada Michael Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Atkinson David Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fines Philippe Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/2-4(2006-10-01), 341-361 0165-0009 78:2-4<341 2006 78 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer