Ian T. Lawson

TL;DR: A high-resolution pollen record from western Greece shows that the amplitude of millennial-scale oscillations in tree abundance during the last glacial period was subdued, with temperate tree populations surviving throughout the interval, providing evidence for the existence of an area of relative ecological stability.

TL;DR: Radiocarbon dates indicate that peat began accumulating from about 10,600 years ago, coincident with the onset of more humid conditions in central Africa at the beginning of the Holocene, making the Cuvette Centrale depression in the central Congo Basin the most extensive peatland complex in the tropics.

TL;DR: In this paper, a synthesis of sites providing high-resolution terrestrial and marine records from Europe is undertaken in order to examine geographical and temporal patterns in the expression of Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles in the European vegetation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a multi-sensor (Landsat, ALOS PALSAR and SRTM) remote sensing approach, together with field data including 24 forest census plots and 218 peat thickness measurements, to map the distribution of peatland vegetation types and calculate the combined above-and below-ground carbon stock of Peatland ecosystems in the Pastaza-Maranon foreland basin in Peru.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the regional expression of millennial-scale climate variability during the last glacial with particular reference to the vegetation response in Greece and found that differences in the magnitude of cold events as recognized in the North Atlantic and western Mediterranean are expressed in terms of tree population changes only in areas with a range of favorable habitats.