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European Climate Change at the End of the Last Glaciation (EUCLIM)

EUCLIM will produce new, high-quality climate records based on fossil chironomid and pollen assemblages in lake sediments. Analyses will focus on the late-glacial period, when the European continent experienced major climatic oscillations and periods of abrupt warming. The new climate records will allow a better understanding of the response of European climate and of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems during phases of rapid warming and will be used to evaluate available reconstructions of late-glacial climate based on climate models.


Fieldwork at Laguna de la Roya, Spain, to obtain a lateglacial sediment sequence


 
 Participants


Internal:
Oliver Heiri, Elisa Vescovi, Stéphanie Samartin, Willy Tinner

External:
Andy Lotter, Emi Kirilova (Utrecht University), Hans Renssen, Didier Roche (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Steve Brooks (Natural History Museum London), John Birks, Hilary Birks (University of Bergen), Laurent Millet, Odile Peyron (Université de Franche Comte), Enikö Magyiari (Natural History Museum Budapest), Spasimir Tonkov (Sofia University), Castor Muñoz Sobrino (University of Vigo), Heikki Seppä (University of Helsinki), Siim Veski (Talinn University of Technology), Morten Fischer Mortensen (The National Museum of Denmark) and other colleagues

 Temperature Reconstruction


A chironomid-based reconstruction of past July air temperature from Lac Lautrey, France (Heiri and Millet, 2005), compared with a climate reconstruction based on oxygen isotopes in ostracod remains from Southern Germany (von Grafenstein et al., 1999). Within EUCLIM a large number of new temperature records will be produced to study European climate at the end of the last ice age

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