Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh.

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dc.contributor.author Müller, Stefanie
dc.contributor.author Tarasov, Pavel E
dc.contributor.author Andreev, Andrei A
dc.contributor.author Tütken, Thomas
dc.contributor.author Gartz, Steffi
dc.contributor.author Diekmann, Bernhard
dc.coverage.spatial MEDIAN LATITUDE: 65.388938 * MEDIAN LONGITUDE: 123.939177 * SOUTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 55.993000 * WEST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 110.819000 * NORTH-BOUND LATITUDE: 73.381000 * EAST-BOUND LONGITUDE: 133.134000
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-24T06:23:33Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-24T06:23:33Z
dc.date.issued 2015-09-17
dc.identifier https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.849667
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.849667
dc.identifier.citation Müller, Stefanie; Tarasov, Pavel E; Andreev, Andrei A; Tütken, Thomas; Gartz, Steffi; Diekmann, Bernhard (2010): Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(17-18), 2071-2086, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.024
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.geologyscience.ru/handle/123456789/7537
dc.description.abstract Here we present a detailed radiocarbon-dated 936 cm long pollen record from Lake Billyakh (65°17' N, 126°47' E; 340 m a.s.l.) situated in the western part of the Verkhoyansk Mountains, about 140 km south of the Arctic Circle. A set of 53 surface pollen samples representing tundra, cold deciduous forest and taiga was collected in northern and central Yakutia communities to verify the accuracy of the quantitative biome reconstruction method and to obtain a more precise attribution of the identified pollen taxa to the main regional biomes. The adjusted method is then applied to the pollen record from Lake Billyakh to gain a reconstruction of vegetation and environments since about 50.7 kyr BP. The results of the pollen analysis and pollen-based biome reconstruction suggest that herbaceous tundra and steppe communities dominated the area from 50.7 to 13.5 kyr BP. Relatively low pollen concentrations and high percentages of herbaceous pollen taxa (mainly Cyperaceae, Poaceae and Artemisia) likely indicate a reduced vegetation cover and/or lower pollen production. On the other hand, extremely low percentages of drought-tolerant taxa, such as Chenopodiaceae and Ephedra, and the constant presence of various mesophyllous herbaceous (Thalictrum, Rosaceae, Asteraceae) and shrubby taxa (Betula sect. Nanae/Fruticosae, Duschekia fruticosa, Salix) in the pollen assemblages prevent an interpretation of the last glacial environments around Lake Billyakh as extremely arid. The lowest pollen percentages of woody taxa and the highest values of Artemisia pollen attest that the 31-15 kyr BP period as the driest and coldest interval of the entire record. A relative high content of taxa representing shrub tundra communities and the presence of larch pollen recorded prior to 31 kyr and after 13.5 kyr BP likely indicate interstadial climate amelioration associated with the middle and latest parts of the last glacial. An increase in pollen percentages of herbaceous taxa around 12 kyr BP suggests broader distribution of drier communities in response to the colder and drier than present climate of the Younger Dryas (YD). The onset of the Holocene is marked in the pollen record by the highest values of shrub taxa, mainly B. sect. Nanae/Fruticosae. Pollen percentages of arboreal taxa increase gradually and reach maximum values after 7 kyr BP. The latter maximum mainly reflects the spread of Pinus sylvestris in central Yakutia as a response to the mid-Holocene climatic optimum. The quasi-continuous presence of larch, shrubby birch and alder pollen throughout the whole record is the most striking feature of the pollen record. Noticeable variations in larch pollen percentages point to multiple short-term warming episodes, which might be synchronous with the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles in the North Atlantic records. The Lake Billyakh pollen record suggests that larch possibly survived during the last 50 kyr BP in locally favourable environments in the study region.
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dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher PANGAEA
dc.rights CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
dc.rights Access constraints: unrestricted
dc.source Supplement to: Müller, Stefanie; Tarasov, Pavel E; Andreev, Andrei A; Tütken, Thomas; Gartz, Steffi; Diekmann, Bernhard (2010): Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(17-18), 2071-2086, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.024
dc.subject AWI_PerDyn
dc.subject Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI
dc.title Late Quaternary vegetation and environments in the Verkhoyansk Mountains region (NE Asia) reconstructed from a 50-kyr fossil pollen record from Lake Billyakh.
dc.title.alternative Pollen assemblages of modern soil samples and results of the pollen analysis of the PG1755 core from Lake Billyakh, Yakutia, Russia
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