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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-697-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-697-2016
Research article
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21 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 21 Mar 2016

Millennial-scale vegetation changes in the tropical Andes using ecological grouping and ordination methods

Dunia H. Urrego, Henry Hooghiemstra, Oscar Rama-Corredor, Belen Martrat, Joan O. Grimalt, Lonnie Thompson, Mark B. Bush, Zaire González-Carranza, Jennifer Hanselman, Bryan Valencia, and César Velásquez-Ruiz

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We compare eight pollen records reflecting environmental change in the tropical Andes over the past 30 000 years. Our analysis focuses on the signature of millennial-scale climate variability in the tropical Andes: Heinrich stadials (HS) and Greenland interstadials (GI). We identify rapid responses of the tropical vegetation, with downslope upper forest line (UFL) migrations and cooling during HS and the Younger Dryas.