Search Results - "Singarayer, Joy"
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Microbial community dynamics in the forefield of glaciers
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-11-2014)“…Retreating ice fronts (as a result of a warming climate) expose large expanses of deglaciated forefield, which become colonized by microbes and plants. There…”
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High-latitude climate sensitivity to ice-sheet forcing over the last 120 kyr
Published in Quaternary science reviews (2010)“…Interpretation of ice-core records is currently limited by paucity of modelling at adequate temporal and spatial resolutions. Several key questions relate to…”
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Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-10-2020)“…Aim Insight into global biome responses to climatic and other environmental changes is essential to address key questions about past and future impacts of such…”
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The fate of the Caspian Sea under projected climate change and water extraction during the 21st century
Published in Environmental research letters (01-09-2021)“…Abstract The Caspian Sea (CS) delivers considerable ecosystem services to millions of people. It experienced water level variations of 3 m during the 20th…”
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Response of Amazonian forests to mid‐Holocene drought: A model‐data comparison
Published in Global change biology (01-01-2022)“…There is a major concern for the fate of Amazonia over the coming century in the face of anthropogenic climate change. A key area of uncertainty is the scale…”
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Robustness despite uncertainty: regional climate data reveal the dominant role of humans in explaining global extinctions of Late Quaternary megafauna
Published in Ecography (Copenhagen) (01-02-2016)“…Debate over the Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions has focussed on whether human colonisation or climatic changes were more important drivers of…”
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Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-10-2012)“…The extent to which past climate change has dictated the pattern and timing of the out-of-Africa expansion by anatomically modern humans is currently unclear…”
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Investigating the feedbacks between CO2, vegetation and the AMOC in a coupled climate model
Published in Climate dynamics (01-09-2019)“…The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is an important component of the climate system, however its sensitivity to the terrestrial biosphere…”
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Ocean dominated expansion and contraction of the late Quaternary tropical rainbelt
Published in Scientific reports (24-08-2017)“…The latitude of the tropical rainbelt oscillates seasonally but has also varied on millennial time-scales in response to changes in the seasonal distribution…”
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Late Holocene methane rise caused by orbitally controlled increase in tropical sources
Published in Nature (London) (03-02-2011)“…Natural explanation for preindustrial methane peak The question of how long humans have influenced global climate by greenhouse-gas emissions is fundamental to…”
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Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse
Published in Nature communications (16-08-2016)“…Several studies have suggested that sea-level rise during the last interglacial implies retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). The prevalent…”
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CMIP6/PMIP4 simulations of the mid-Holocene and Last Interglacial using HadGEM3: comparison to the pre-industrial era, previous model versions and proxy data
Published in Climate of the past (06-08-2020)“…Palaeoclimate model simulations are an important tool to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of climate change. These simulations also provide tests of…”
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Global biome patterns of the Middle and Late Pleistocene
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-08-2023)“…Our primary aim was to assess the hypothesis that distinctive features of the patterns of vegetation change during successive Quaternary glacial–interglacial…”
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Tackling Regional Climate Change By Leaf Albedo Bio-geoengineering
Published in Current biology (27-01-2009)“…The likelihood that continuing greenhouse-gas emissions will lead to an unmanageable degree of climate change [1] has stimulated the search for planetary-scale…”
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Holocene variations in peatland methane cycling associated with the Asian summer monsoon system
Published in Nature communications (19-08-2014)“…Atmospheric methane concentrations decreased during the early to middle Holocene; however, the governing mechanisms remain controversial. Although it has been…”
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Projected climatic changes lead to biome changes in areas of previously constant biome
Published in Journal of biogeography (01-10-2021)“…Aim Recent studies in southern Africa identified past biome stability as an important predictor of biodiversity. We aimed to assess the extent to which past…”
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Spatio-temporal climate change contributes to latitudinal diversity gradients
Published in Nature ecology & evolution (01-10-2019)“…The latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG), where the number of species increases from the poles to the Equator, ranks among the broadest and most notable…”
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Late Quaternary climate legacies in contemporary plant functional composition
Published in Global change biology (01-10-2018)“…The functional composition of plant communities is commonly thought to be determined by contemporary climate. However, if rates of climate‐driven immigration…”
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Simulating the 128‐ka Antarctic Climate Response to Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheet Melting Using the Isotope‐Enabled HadCM3
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-11-2018)“…Warmer than present Antarctic and Southern Ocean temperatures during the last interglacial, approximately 128,000 years ago, have been attributed to changes in…”
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Interhemispheric dynamics of the African rainbelt during the late Quaternary
Published in Quaternary science reviews (15-09-2015)“…The spatial pattern of precipitation variability in tropical and subtropical Africa over the late Quaternary has long been debated. Prevailing hypotheses…”
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