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Paleoclimatic Reconstruction Using Mutual Climatic Range on Terrestrial Mollusks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Olivier Moine ,
Denis-Didier Rousseau ,
Dominique Jolly  and
Marc Vianey-Liaud
Olivier Moine
Affiliation:
Paléoenvironnements & Palynologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II, case 61, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France, E-mail: omoine@isem.univ-montp2.fr
Denis-Didier Rousseau
Affiliation:
Paléoenvironnements & Palynologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II, case 61, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France, E-mail: omoine@isem.univ-montp2.fr Paléoenvironnements & Palynologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II, case 61, place E. Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 5, 34095, France and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York 10964
Dominique Jolly
Affiliation:
Paléoenvironnements & Palynologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II, case 61, place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France, E-mail: omoine@isem.univ-montp2.fr
Marc Vianey-Liaud
Affiliation:
Génétique et Environnement, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR CNRS 5554), Université Montpellier II, case 64, place E. Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 5, 34095, France
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Abstract

Terrestrial mollusks, easily identified in Quaternary sediments, represent a reliable tool for quantitative estimates of environmental parameters. Our study, comparing the species distribution with meteorological parameters in Europe, shows that mean temperature of the coldest month and annual thermal magnitude are the most important forcing parameters. This survey allows us to adapt the mutual climatic range (MCR) method to terrestrial mollusk assemblages following two main steps. A set of assemblages from different European regions (northern Norway to southern France) is used to apply the method to present-day mollusks. The reconstructed values describe the latitudinal temperature gradient prevailing over Europe. However, the comparison between the reconstructed and the measured values indicates a shift, similar to that observed, with the same method applied to beetle assemblages. Thus, estimates must be calculated after the reconstruction is tuned with the observations. The results from the modern mollusk assemblages indicate that the MCR method can be safely applied to reconstructing temperatures from terrestrial mollusk assemblages in any worldwide Quaternary sequence. A trial application is made on Late Pleistocene assemblages from Achenheim (Alsace, France).

Keywords

terrestrial mollusksmutual climatic rangeEuropeQuaternarycontinental paleoclimatologyquantitative temperature estimates
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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 162 - 172
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University of Washington

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