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Holocene climates of the Iberian Peninsula: pollen-based reconstructions of changes in the west–east gradient of temperature and moisture
Mengmeng Liu
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Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK
Yicheng Shen
Geography & Environmental Science, Reading University, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK
Penelope González-Sampériz
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain
Graciela Gil-Romera
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología – CSIC, Avda. Montañana 1005, 50059, Zaragoza, Spain
Cajo J. F. ter Braak
Biometris (Applied Mathematics and Applied Statistics Centre), Wageningen University & Research, 6708 PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Iain Colin Prentice
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK
Sandy P. Harrison
Geography & Environmental Science, Reading University, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AH, UK
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Short summary
We reconstructed the Holocene climates in the Iberian Peninsula using a large pollen data set and found that the west–east moisture gradient was much flatter than today. We also found that the winter was much colder, which can be expected from the low winter insolation during the Holocene. However, summer temperature did not follow the trend of summer insolation, instead, it was strongly correlated with moisture.
We reconstructed the Holocene climates in the Iberian Peninsula using a large pollen data set...
