Journal
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 257-272Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.019
Keywords
Late Quaternary climate dynamics; Subtropical Queensland; Last Glacial Maximum; Australia; Pollen; Charcoal; Lake sediments
Funding
- ARC [LP0990124]
- AINSE [AINGRA07115, AINGRA10067]
- School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
- University of Queensland (UQ Research Development Grant)
- University of Queensland (UQ New Staff Start-Up Grant)
- Australian Research Council [LP0990124] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Currently there is a paucity of records of late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental variability available from the subtropics of Australia. The three continuous palaeoecological records presented here, from North Stradbroke Island, subtropical Queensland, assist in bridging this large spatial gap in the current state of knowledge. The dominance of arboreal taxa in the pollen records throughout the past >40,000 years is in contrast with the majority of records from temperate Australia, and indicates a positive moisture balance for North Stradbroke Island. The charcoal records show considerable inter-site variability indicating the importance of local-scale events on individual records, and highlighting the caution that needs to be applied when interpreting a single site as a regional record. The variability in the burning regimes is interpreted as being influenced by both climatic and human factors. Despite this inter-site variability, broad environmental trends are identifiable, with changes in the three records comparable with the OZ-INTIMATE climate synthesis for the last 35,000 years. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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