Global Change in the Holocene

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-340-81214-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 556 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 954 g

The Holocene spans the 11,500 years since the end of the last Ice Age and has been a period of major global environmental change. However the rate of change has accelerated during the last hundred years, due largely to human impacts and this has led to a growing concern for the future of our environmental resources. Global Change in the Holocene demonstrates how reconstructing the record of past environmental change can provide us with essential knowledge about how our environment works and presents the reader with an informed viewpoint from which to project realistic future scenarios. The book brings together key techniques that are widely used in Holocene research, such as radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology and sediment analysis and offers a comprehensive analysis of various archives of environmental change including instrumental and documentary records, corals, lake sediments, glaciers and ice cores.

This reference is an informative and cutting-edge resource for students of climate change, environmental science, geography, palaeoecology and archaeology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birks, John

Battarbee, Rick

Mackay, Anson

Oldfield, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frank Oldfield Introduction: the Holocene, a special time

Raymond S. Bradley Climate forcing during the Holocene

Paul J. Valdes An introduction to climate modelling of the Holocene

Stepehen Shennan Holocene climate and human populations: an archaeological approach

H.E. Wright Jr & Joanna Thorpe Climatic change and the origin of agriculture in the Near East

Jon R. Pilcher Radiocarbon dating and environmental radiocarbon studies

Michael G.L. Baillie & David M. Brown Dendrochronology and the reconstruction of fine-resolution environmental change in the Holocene

Bernd Zolitschka Dating based on freshwater- and marine-laminated sediments

H.John B. Birks Quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from Holocene biological data

Melanie J. Leng Stable isotopes in lakes and lake sediment archives

Phil D. Jones & Ray Thompson Instrumental Records

Peter Brimblecombe Documentary records

K. Briffa & E. Cooke Dendroclimatology

Julia Cole Holocene coral records: windows in tropical climate variability

Mark Maslin, Jennifer Pike, Catherine Stickley & Virginia Ettwein Evidence of Holocene climate variability in marine sediments

Keith E. Barber & Dan J. Charman Holocene palaeoclimate records from peatlands

Sherilyn C. Fritz Lacustrine perspectives on Holocene climate

Stein-Erik Lauritzen Reconstructing Holocene climate records from speleothems

Atle Nesje & Svein Olaf Dahl Glaciers as indicators of Holocene climate change

David A. Fisher & Roy M. Koerner Holocene ice core climate history: a multi-variable approach

Anson Mackay, Vivienne J. Jones & Richard W. Battarbee Approached to Holocene climate reconstruction using diatoms

Jonathan A. Holmes & Daniel R. Engstrom Non-marine ostracod records of Holocene environmental change

Stephen J. Brooks Chironomid analysis to interpret and quantify Holocene climate change

Hilary H. Birks & H.John B. Birks Reconstructing Holocene climates from pollen and plant macrofossils

Antoni Rosell-Melé Biomarkers as proxies of climate change

Andre F. Lotter Multi-proxy climatic reconstructions

Mark Bush Holocene climates of the lowland tropical forests

Louis Scott The Holocene and middle latitude arid areas

Ian D. Goodwin Unravelling climatic influences on late Holocene sea-level variability

Martin Claussen Simulation of Holocene climate change using climate-system models

Über Autor(innen)

Anson Mackay is Reader in Environmental Change at University College London, UK Rick Battarbee is Professor of Environmental Change at University College London, UK John Birks is Professor in Quantitative Ecology & Palaeoecology at the University of Bergen, Norway and Visiting Professor of Quaternary Palaeoecology at University College London, UK Frank Oldfield is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Liverpool, UK