Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands

Published date: 1 January 2022

Additional Information: Funding Information: Many thanks to Xianglin Zheng for processing the loss-on-ignition and pollen slides, Yichen Liu for microbial analysis, and Charlotte Cook and Catherine Jex, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark, for sample collection and GDGT measurements. Pb-210 dating was undertaken via ANSTO grant AP12069 to LS. This research was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (EpicAustralia.org.au). We thank UNSW for a Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Grant which helped support this work. ZAT is supported by her ARC DECRA Fellowship (DE200100907). We thank three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments which helped improve the manuscript. Corrigendum: The authors regret that the printed version of the above article contained a transcription error in the m/z 1048 peak area column for the branched GDGTs (Table S2). This error affected the GDGT-inferred summer air temperature presented in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, and some of the calibrations presented Fig. S2. The GDGT-inferred temperatures have been recalculated and are presented below. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused. The corrected GDGT-inferred summer air temperature (Fig. 3) is largely within the uncertainty of the temperature calibration (2.0 °C RMSE, Pearson et al., 2011). While the pattern of the temperature variations over the last 3500 years remains unchanged, the GDGT-inferred summer air temperature is between 0.4 and 3.3 degrees lower than was originally presented. The interpretations of Thomas et al. (2022) are unaffected, with reconstructed changes in temperature at Club Lake still associated with several other palaeoenvironmental proxies. Section 4.1 “Our reconstruction of MSAT varies between about 13 and 16 °C, and appears to display a long-term increase in temperature averaging ~0.1 °C per century (Fig. 3).” should be “Our reconstruction of MSAT varies between about 10 and 15 °C, and appears to display a long-term increase in temperature averaging ~0.13 °C per century (Fig. 3).” Section 4.2 “The reconstructed temperature of 16.2 ± 1 °C (which is higher than the contemporary Thredbo AWS mean summer temperature) must therefore be treated with caution.” should be “The reconstructed temperature of 15.7 ± 1 °C (which is higher than the contemporary Thredbo AWS mean summer temperature) must therefore be treated with caution.”

Related URLs:

• http://10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152367

Keywords: Australian Alps, Charcoal, Climate change, Ecosystems, GDGT, Mercury, Pollen

Local EPrints ID: 476041

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476041

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149542

ISSN: 0048-9697

PURE UUID: 77d7f787-1ee9-49e2-85dd-495f852ea6ae

ORCID for Zoë A. Thomas: orcid.org/0000-0002-2323-4366

Date deposited: 04 Apr 2023 16:59

Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 04:10