Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C514758/1
Vegetation response to abrupt climate change during MIS 6: direct land-sea comparisons.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor PC Tzedakis, University of Leeds, Sch of Geography
- Grant held at:
- University of Leeds, Sch of Geography
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Quaternary Science
- Abstract:
- In the context of future climate change, there is a need to understand the response times and amplitudes of vegetation to different scales of forcing. As these are not easily extrapolated from current observations, the geological record may provide an insight into the behaviour of vegetation communities to different scales of climate variation. In this respect, the last two glacial periods represent an excellent opportunity to attempt comparisons in terms of the character of climate forcing and vegetation response. The last glacial has recently been the focus of intense research activity, which revealed the pervasive and extreme nature of millennial-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic. These changes had significant and immediate downstream effects on terrestrial ecosystems, leading to a series of contractions and expansions of tree populations in Europe. By comparison, the penultimate glacial has remained relatively understudied, but the available information suggests that it was characterized by larger ice volumes and less extreme millennial-scale variability than the last glacial. This project seeks to generate a pollen record from the most detailed marine sequence of the penultimate glacial and examine the character of vegetation changes in SW Portugal relative to those of the last glacial. This approach combines pollen and marine proxy analyses from the same samples, which allows an in situ assessment of phase and amplitude relationships and bypasses long-distance correlation problems. It builds on our recent results from the Portuguese margin, which have already produced spectacular records of millennial-scale climate variability and vegetation response during the last glacial.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C514758/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Small Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Small Grants
This grant award has a total value of £30,880
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £20,252 | £164 | £1,148 | £9,316 |
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