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Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling (2018)
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Kender, S., Ravelo, A. C., Worne, S., Swann, G. E. A., Leng, M. J., Asahi, H., Becker, J., Detlef, H., Aiello, I. W., Andreasen, D., & Hall, I. R. (2018). Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 5386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07828-0

The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) is characterised by cooling and lengthening glacial cycles from 600–1200 ka, thought to be driven by reductions in glacial CO2 in particular from ~900 ka onwards. Reduced high latitude upwelling, a process that re... Read More about Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling.

Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter (2018)
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Zanchetta, G., Baneschi, I., Francke, A., Boschi, C., Regattieri, E., Wagner, B., Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Vogel, H., & Sadori, L. (2018). Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 154-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.022

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In the DEEP core from the Lake Ohrid ICDP drilling project, the carbon isotope composition of bulk organic matter (δ 13 C TOC ) over the last 516 ka shows a negative correlation with total organic carbon (TOC) and total inorganic... Read More about Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter.

Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion (2018)
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Viehberg, F. A., Just, J., Dean, J. R., Wagner, B., Franz, S. O., Klasen, N., Kleinen, T., Ludwig, P., Asrat, A., Lamb, H. F., Leng, M. J., Rethemeyer, J., Milodowski, A. E., Claussen, M., & Schäbitz, F. (2018). Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 139-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.008

Archaeological findings, numerical human dispersal models and genome analyses suggest several time windows in the past 200 kyr (thousands of years ago) when anatomically modern humans (AMH) dispersed out of Africa into the Levant and/or Arabia. From... Read More about Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion.

Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle (2018)
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Cadd, H. R., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Unger, L., Leng, M. J., Marshall, J. C., McGregor, G., Lewis, R., Arnold, L. J., Lewis, T., & Baldock, J. (2018). Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.010

Continuous records of terrestrial environmental and climatic variability that extend beyond the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Australia are rare. Furthermore, where long records do exist, interpretations of climate and ecological change can be hamper... Read More about Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle.

Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells (2018)
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Lacey, J., Leng, M., Peckover, E., Dean, J., Wilke, T., Francke, A., Zhang, X., Masi, A., & Wagner, B. (2018). Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.025

Sclerochronological data from whole bivalve shells have been used extensively to derive palaeoenvironmental information. However, little is known about the relevance of shell fragments more commonly preserved in the sediment record. Here, we investig... Read More about Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells.

Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands (2018)
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Bailey, H. L., Kaufman, D. S., Sloane, H. J., Hubbard, A. L., Henderson, A. C., Leng, M. J., Meyer, H., & Welker, J. M. (2018). Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.027

The North Pacific is a zone of cyclogenesis that modulates synoptic-scale atmospheric circulation, yet there is a paucity of instrumental and paleoclimate data to fully constrain its long-term state and variability. We present the first Holocene oxyg... Read More about Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands.

Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily) (2018)
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Colonese, A., Lo Vetro, D., Landini, W., Di Giuseppe, Z., Hausmann, N., Demarchi, B., d’Angelo, C., Leng, M., Incarbona, A., Whitwood, A., & Martini, F. (in press). Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.018

Marine faunal remains from Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana Island, NW Sicily) offer invaluable snapshots of human-coastal environment interaction in the central Mediterranean from the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. The long-term shellfish and f... Read More about Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily).

Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater (2018)
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Hendry, K. R., Pyle, K. M., Butler, G. B., Cooper, A., Fransson, A., Chierici, M., Leng, M. J., Meyer, A., & Dodd, P. A. (2018). Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(5), 3507-3522. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017jc013668

Freshwater export from the Arctic is critical in determining the density of water at sites of North Atlantic deep water formation, which in turn influences the global flux of oceanic heat and nutrients. We need geochemical tracers and high-resolution... Read More about Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater.

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate (2018)
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Hearing, T. W., Harvey, T. H., Williams, M., Leng, M. J., Lamb, A. L., Wilby, P. R., Gabbott, S. E., Pohl, A., & Donnadieu, Y. (2018). An early Cambrian greenhouse climate. Science Advances, 4(5), Article eaar5690. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5690

The oceans of the early Cambrian (~541 to 509 million years ago) were the setting for a marked diversification of animal life. However, sea temperatures — a key component of the early Cambrian marine environment — remain unconstrained, in part becaus... Read More about An early Cambrian greenhouse climate.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Snelling, A. M., & Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.