TITLE:
Pollen Evidence of a Humid Mid-Holocene Climate from Bahar Nuur, Inner Mongolia
AUTHORS:
Changqing Huang, Lanlan Guo
KEYWORDS:
Lake Sediment, Pollen Record, Climate Change, Ordos Plateau, Mid-Holocene
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.4 No.3,
March
31,
2017
ABSTRACT: A high-resolution pollen-based bioclimatic
reconstruction from Bahar Nuur Lake in Inner Mongolia, China, supported by 15
AMS dates, is compared with other records in the Ordos Plateau and stalagmite
record from Dongge cave in order to better
understand the Holocene climate history in semi-arid East Asian monsoon
margin area better. A humid climate prevailed in the Ordos Plateau during 6.3-4.4 ka BP, as indicated by high broadleaf-tree pollen percentages and pollen concentrations. Due to a
strong Asian monsoon, the mid-Holocene climatic optimum exhibited a delayed vegetative
response on the Ordos Plateau.