Tree-Ring Stable Isotopes Reveal a Hydroclimate Shift in Eastern England Around 4.2 ka Ago

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2025

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1029/2024gl114313

Аннотация: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Tree ring-based climate reconstructions are fundamental for high-resolution paleoclimatology, but only a few of them extend back into the mid-Holocene (8,200–4,200 years BP). Here, we present annually-resolved tree-ring stable carbon and oxygen isotopes (δ<jats:sup>13</jats:sup>C and δ<jats:Показать полностьюsup>18</jats:sup>O) from subfossil yew (<jats:italic>Taxus baccata</jats:italic>) wood excavated in the Fenland region of eastern England. We develop an eco-physiological model to reconstruct hydroclimate variability from 5,224 to 4,813 ± 4 and 4,612–4,195 ± 6 cal. years BP. Our findings suggest that a relative sea-level rise in the North Sea, riverine flooding, and a prolonged negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation caused unusually wet conditions around 4,200 years ago when yew woodlands in eastern England disappeared. We expect our study to stimulate high-resolution stable isotope measurements in relict wood and encourage the integration of terrestrial and marine proxy archives to reconstruct the causes and consequences of large-scale climate variations around the still debated 4.2 ka event.</jats:p>

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Журнал: Geophysical Research Letters

Выпуск журнала: Т. 52, 7

Номера страниц: 2024

ISSN журнала: 00948276

Издатель: American Geophysical Union

Персоны

  • Bebchuk Tatiana (Department of Geography University of Cambridge Cambridge UK)
  • Urban Otmar (Czech Academy of Sciences Global Change Research Institute Brno Czech Republic)
  • Arosio Tito (Department of Geography University of Cambridge Cambridge UK)
  • Kirdyanov Alexander (Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk Russian Federation)
  • Friedrich Ronny (Curt-Engelhorn-Centre Archaeometry Mannheim Germany)
  • Pernicová Natálie (Czech Academy of Sciences Global Change Research Institute Brno Czech Republic)
  • Čáslavský Josef (Czech Academy of Sciences Global Change Research Institute Brno Czech Republic)
  • Trnka Mirek (Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology Faculty of AgriSciences Mendel University in Brno Brno Czech Republic)
  • Franсis Alis (Department of Geography University of Cambridge Cambridge UK)
  • Macklin Mark (College of Health and Science University of Lincoln Lincoln UK)
  • Esper Jan (Department of Geography Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany)
  • Büntgen Ulf (Department of Geography Faculty of Science Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic)

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