@article {hurwitz_yellowstones_2020,
	title = {Yellowstone{\textquoteright}s Old Faithful Geyser Shut Down by a Severe Thirteenth Century Drought},
	journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
	volume = {47},
	number = {20},
	year = {2020},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2020GL089871},
	month = {10/2020},
	pages = {e2020GL089871},
	abstract = {To characterize eruption activity of the iconic Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park over past centuries, we obtained 41 new radiocarbon dates of mineralized wood preserved in the mound of silica that precipitated from erupted waters. Trees do not grow on active geyser mounds, implying that trees grew on the Old Faithful Geyser mound during a protracted period of eruption quiescence. Rooted stumps and root crowns located on higher parts of the mound are evidence that at the time of tree growth, the geyser mound closely resembled its current appearance. The range of calibrated radiocarbon dates (1233{\textendash}1362 CE) is coincident with a series of severe multidecadal regional droughts toward the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly, prior to the onset of the Little Ice Age. Climate models project increasingly severe droughts by mid-21st century, suggesting that geyser eruptions could become less frequent or completely cease.},
	keywords = {drought, Medieval Climate Anomaly, mineralization, Old Faithful Geyser, radiocarbon, Yellowstone},
	issn = {1944-8007},
	doi = {10.1029/2020GL089871},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GL089871},
	author = {Hurwitz, Shaul and King, John C. and Pederson, Gregory T. and Martin, Justin T. and Damby, David E. and Manga, Michael and Hungerford, Jefferson D. G. and Peek, Sara}
}
@article {2714,
	title = {Vegetation responses to late Holocene climate changes in an Andean forest},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {89},
	year = {2018},
	month = {Jan-01-2018},
	pages = {60 - 74},
	abstract = {A paleoecological record from Lake Palotoa (1370 m elevation) in the Andean foothills of Peru spans the last 3800 years. Lake Palotoa lies near the modern cloud base in a location sensitive to changes in atmospheric moisture. In many areas, these forests have been destroyed, but Lake Palotoa shows no sign of human occupation today or in the past. The modern forest surrounding the lake is dominated by the Andean palm, Dictyocaryum lamarckianum, which is also the most abundant taxon in the fossil pollen record. Fossil pollen data show the vegetation assemblages have not experienced strong compositional changes in the late Holocene. Global-scale climatic events such as the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and the Little Ice Age (LIA) are identified within the record, though the vegetation responses are subtle. Hedyosmum and Sloanea pollen percentages increase near the onset of the MCA and may reflect decreased seasonality. The LIA coincides with increased Hedyosmum pollen percentages, and increases in Clethra and Begonia, two elements that tend to occupy forests now found at higher elevations. Our findings demonstrate the stability of montane forest systems to natural Holocene climate change.},
	keywords = {Cloud forest, Dictyocaryum, Fossil pollen, Little ice age, Medieval Climate Anomaly, seasonality, Tropical ecology},
	issn = {0033-5894},
	doi = {10.1017/qua.2017.64},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0033589417000643/type/journal_article},
	author = {Schiferl, Jacob D. and Bush, Mark B. and Silman, Miles R. and Urrego, Dunia H.}
}
