Publications by authors named "Oliver A Kern"
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- Concerns are rising about the survival of Mediterranean forests due to upcoming droughts linked to climate change.
- Researchers examined pollen and geochemical records from Greece to understand how these forests have reacted to climate conditions over the past 500,000 years.
- Their findings suggest that rising atmospheric CO2 levels may lead to reduced moisture, potentially causing sudden shifts from forest to steppe ecosystems, which indicates a risk of forest loss in the Mediterranean.
We here present high-resolution palynological data from the Füramoos peat bog, located in the alpine foreland of Southern Germany. The data represent raw pollen counts of major arboreal pollen as well as agricultural indicator taxa for the Late Glacial and Holocene (14.5 ka BP to present) at Füramoos with an average temporal resolution of 100 years (50 years during critical intervals).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFX-ray fluorescence core scanning (XRF-CS) has become a standard tool in paleoenvironmental studies. Allowing rapid, inexpensive and non-destructive analysis of the elemental composition of sediment cores at high spatial resolution, it is ideally suited for the reconstruction of short-term climatic change. However, its applicability to cores consisting of peat and other highly organic-rich sediments has yet remained poorly explored.
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