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Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry (2022)
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Roberts, L. R., Holmes, J. A., Horne, D. J., Leng, M. J., Sayer, C. D., Timms, R. G. O., Flowers, K., Blockley, S. P. M., & Kelly, A. (2022). Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry. Natural Hazards, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05459-9

Climate change threatens the current protection provided by coastal defences in low-lying mid-latitude regions and increases the risk to coastal lakes from future frequent and intense storms. Quantifying and understanding the impacts of past storm su... Read More about Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry.

Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia (2022)
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Asrat, A., Baker, A., Duan, W., Leng, M. J., Boomer, I., Akter, R., Mariethoz, G., Adler, L., Jex, C. N., Yadeta, M., & Wang, L. (2022). Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia. Quaternary Research, 110, 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.29

A multiproxy oxygen and carbon isotope (δ13C and δ18O), growth rate, and trace element stalagmite paleoenvironmental record is presented for the Early Holocene from Ethiopia. The annually laminated stalagmite grew from 10.6 to 10.4 ka and from 9.7 to... Read More about Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia.

Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years (2022)
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Sear, D., Langdon, P., Leng, M., Edwards, M., Heaton, T., Langdon, C., & Leyland, J. (2022). Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years. Holocene, 32(8), 780-793. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095983

Historical salmon catch records suggest that climatic variability, and more recently human exploitation, control patterns of abundance in Atlantic salmon populations. We present the first long-term (2000-year) reconstruction of Atlantic Salmon popula... Read More about Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years.

Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ 13C contamination by embedding resin (2022)
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Branscombe, T., Lee-Thorp, J., Schulting, R., & Leng, M. (2022). Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ 13C contamination by embedding resin. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 36(14), Article e9318. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9318

Rationale: Embedding resins are commonly used to facilitate high-resolution sampling for stable isotope analysis but anomalous δ13C values have been observed in some cases. Here we compare the results of microsampling strategies for hand-drilled vers... Read More about Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ 13C contamination by embedding resin.

Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings (2022)
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Metcalfe, S. E., Holmes, J. A., Jones, M. D., Gonzalez, R. M., Primmer, N. J., Dyrzo, H. M., Davies, S. J., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 282, Article 107445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107445

The importance of climate change, specifically drought, across the Maya region in the northern Neotropics, remains a topic of lively debate. Part of this discussion hinges on the coherency of response to climatic variability across different archives... Read More about Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings.

Silicic Acid Cycling in the Bering Sea During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (2022)
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Worne, S., Swann, G. E., Kender, S., Lacey, J. H., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Silicic Acid Cycling in the Bering Sea During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(2), Article e2021PA004284. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004284

The rate of deep-ocean carbon burial is considered important for modulating glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global climate during the Quaternary. It has been suggested that glacial iron fertilization and increased efficiency o... Read More about Silicic Acid Cycling in the Bering Sea During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion (2022)
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Cañadas, F., Papineau, D., Leng, M. J., & Li, C. (2022). Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion. Nature Communications, 13, Article 148. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27812-5

Member IV of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation records the recovery from the most negative carbon isotope excursion in Earth history. However, the main biogeochemical controls that ultimately drove this recovery have yet to be elucidated. Here, we r... Read More about Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion.

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
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Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., Kimoto, K., Hasegawa, S., Wagner, T., & Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years (2021)
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Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Schulz, C., Cadd, H., & Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00222-9

Lake sediments are important archives of past climate variability and lake responses to climate. In order to accurately infer past climates, it is necessary to understand, and account for, the ecological processes that affect the record of indicators... Read More about Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years.