Last interglacial climates of south-eastern Australia : plant and beetle-based reconstructions from Yarra Creek, King Island, Tasmania Porch, Nick, Jordan, Gregory J., Price, David M., Barnes, Richard W., Macphail, Mike K. and Pemberton, Mike 2009, Last interglacial climates of south-eastern Australia : plant and beetle-based reconstructions from Yarra Creek, King Island, Tasmania, Quaternary science reviews, vol. 28, no. 27-28, pp. 3197-3210, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.023. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Last interglacial climates of south-eastern Australia : plant and beetle-based reconstructions from Yarra Creek, King Island, Tasmania Author(s) Porch, Nick orcid.org/0000-0001-7179-3843 Jordan, Gregory J. Price, David M. Barnes, Richard W. Macphail, Mike K. Pemberton, Mike Journal name Quaternary science reviews Volume number 28 Issue number 27-28 Start page 3197 End page 3210 Total pages 14 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2009-12 ISSN 0277-3791 1873-457X Summary This paper explores the palaeoclimatic significance of a fossil plant and insect record from Yarra Creek, on King Island, between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. The record dates, based upon a thermoluminescence chronology and other evidence, to Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5); the exact timing is impossible to ascertain given the resolution of the thermoluminescence results and the presence of an unconformity in the dated section. The presence of a cool-temperate rainforest flora, outside its modern range, and other independent evidence, suggest the sequence may represent the last interglacial (MIS 5e) rather than a later MIS 5 substage. Using coexistence methods that compare modern climatic ranges of the taxa in the assemblage we reconstruct independent beetle and plant based annual and seasonal temperate and precipitation parameters. The results imply the assemblage was deposited under a wetter summer climate and suggest conditions of enhanced temperature seasonality. It is probable that enhanced temperature seasonality is a methodological artefact reflecting the rarity of extremely equable climates (like King Island) in modern climate space. This would indicate a limitation of most methods of palaeoclimatic reconstruction that rely on modern datasets – it is only possible to reconstruct past climates as being within the range of values in that currently exist in modern climate space. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.09.023 Field of Research 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity Socio Economic Objective 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2009, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30030868 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 20 Oct 2010, 09:24:20 EST Mon, 15 Nov 2010, 11:43:40 EST Mon, 15 Nov 2010, 11:44:49 EST Wed, 08 Dec 2010, 08:36:21 EST Thu, 11 Dec 2014, 16:46:18 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 13 times in TR Web of Science Cited 14 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 775 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 20 Oct 2010, 09:24:20 EST