scholarly journals Late Quaternary Ant Fossils From Packrat Middens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for Climatic Change in the Chihuahuan Desert

1992 ◽  
Vol 99 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. MacKay ◽  
Scott A. Elias
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Chihuahuan Desert ◽  
Late Quaternary

Fossil Insect Evidence for Late Quaternary Climatic Change in the Big Bend Region, Chihuahuan Desert, Texas

1990 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Elias ◽  
Thomas R. Van Devender
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Chihuahuan Desert ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Temperate Species ◽  
Grassland Species ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
Desert Species ◽  
Big Bend Region

AbstractA series of 50 packrat midden assemblages from the Big Bend region of the Chihuahuan Desert, ranging in age from >36,000 yr B.P. to recent, yielded abundant, diverse arthropod faunas. The mesic nature of regional Wisconsin age climates is substantiated by the fauna from 30,000–12,000 yr B.P., especially during the middle Wisconsin (30,000–20,000 yr B.P.). Late Wisconsin faunas contained grassland species which are confined today to cooler, moister regions. Following 12,000 yr B.P., most of these temperate species were replaced either by desert species or by more cosmopolitan taxa, marking the climatic shift from late Wisconsin to postglacial time. Insects indicative of more severe aridity are first recorded at about 6000 yr B.P., but some temperate species persisted until about 2500 yr B.P. After this, only desert dwellers are recorded.

scholarly journals Climate change in the recent geological past and the near future. Predicting its impacts: a Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Constantinos Perisoratis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Climatic Change ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Geological Past ◽  
Near Future

The climate changes are necessarily related to the increase of the Earth’s temperature, resulting in a sea level rise. Such continuous events, were taking place with minor and greater intensity, during the alternation of warm and cool periods in the Earth during the Late Quaternary and the Holocene periods. However, a particularly significant awareness has taken place in the scientific community, and consequently in the greater public, in the last decades: that a climatic change will take place soon, or it is on-going, and that therefore it is important to undertake drastic actions. However, such a climatic change has not been recorded yet, and hence the necessary actions are not required, for the time being.

Late-Quaternary climatic change on the American North Pacific Coast

Nature ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 315 (6019) ◽  
pp. 485-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Heusser ◽  
L. E. Heusser ◽  
D. M. Peteet
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Late Quaternary

Late Quaternary Milankovitch-scale climatic change and variability and its impact on monsoonal Australasia

2003 ◽  
Vol 201 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 81-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.P. Kershaw ◽  
S. van der Kaars ◽  
P.T. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Change ◽  
Late Quaternary
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