Journal
HOLOCENE
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 787-791Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/0959683604hl758fa
Keywords
biotic factors; grazing; biotic drivers; climate change; environmental change; Great Plains; North America; palaeoenvironments; Holocene
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Biotic causes of changes in palaeorecords are discussed as a counterbalance to the (over) emphasis on climatic drivers in the interpretation of palaeoecological change. Biotic and climatic drivers are considered as competing hypotheses with particular reference to the importance of early-Holocene drought in the northern central grassland region of North America. It is concluded that the observed patterns are explained better by grazers than by the direct effects of climatic variation. The elevation of biotic factors as competing hypotheses with climate will require new conceptual and methodological approaches to palaeoecology in North America.
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