Vegetation response to obliquity and precession forcing during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in Western Mediterranean region (ODP site 976) |
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Authors: | Sébastien Joannin Franck Bassinot Nathalie Combourieu Nebout Odile Peyron Célia Beaudouin |
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Affiliation: | 1. Département de Préhistoire, Muséum National Histoire Naturelle, CNRS—UMR7194, 1 rue R. Panhard, 75013 Paris, France;2. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell''Ambiente e delle Risorse (DiSTAR), Università di Napoli Federico II, Largo San Marcellino 10, 80138 Napoli, Italy;3. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, LOCEAN—Paléoproxus, CNRS—UMR7159, 32 avenue Henri Varagnat, 93143 Bondy Cedex, France;1. Université de Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC (Environnements et Paleoenvironnements Oceaniques et Continentaux), Allée Geoffroy St Hilaire, 33615 Pessac Cedex, France;2. UMR 6538 CNRS Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques, Université de Brest (UBO), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM), Place Nicolas Copernic, Plouzané, France;3. EPHE, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC (Environnements et Paleoenvironnements Oceaniques et Continentaux), 33615 Pessac Cedex, France;4. Divisão de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Av. de Brasília 6, 1449-006 Lisbon, Portugal;5. CIMAR, Associate Laboratory, Porto, Portugal |
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Abstract: | The ODP leg 161 Site 976 (Alboran Sea) is a deep-sea section sampled at a water depth of 1108 m in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Pollen analysis provides a vegetation and climate record of the Mid Pleistocene Transition (MPT), roughly one million years ago. The age-model tied to biostratigraphic events was revised by aligning the pollen climate index (PCI) to Mediterranean (KC01b) and global (LR04) oxygen isotope records. The studied time slice spans the interval ~1.09 Ma (MIS 31) to ~0.90 Ma (MIS 23).Across this interval, past phytogeography of nowadays extinct taxa, which were rare, allows a successful application of the modern analogues technique (MAT) to quantitative climate reconstructions for the MPT. Five, long-term, obliquity-related vegetation successions (O1 to O5), and eight short-term, precession-related vegetation successions (P1 to P8) are observed within the studied interval. These vegetation successions, regardless of their duration, show the same pattern: the progressive replacement of temperate trees by mountainous taxa, and then by herbs and steppe maxima. Precession-related successions correspond, therefore, to as dramatic vegetation changes as those driven by obliquity, including a final steppe phase under deteriorated climate conditions.Wavelet analysis of the PCI record shows that the Western Mediterranean experienced a shift at 1.01 Ma from precession-dominated frequencies (1.05–1.01 Ma) to obliquity-dominated frequencies (1.01–0.9 Ma). There is, therefore, an apparent discrepancy between wavelet analysis results and vegetation dynamic analysis (which suggests that obliquity and precession are recorded throughout the entire studied interval). This discrepancy could result from the fact that the PCI record sums, somehow, similar vegetation changes (wet to dry) occurring at different periodicities. Such a complex vegetation dynamics is mathematically rendered through a single parameter (i.e. principal component), which does not successfully catch the subtle combinations of variability occurring at two close periodicities. Furthermore, the pollen-inferred Early Pleistocene vegetation dynamic (and climate) of the Western Mediterranean region does not show a decrease of the obliquity response relative to the precession response at the onset of the MPT. |
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