Comment on "Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years"

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作者：

Brovkin, Victor ^{[1
]}

Claussen, Martin ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Meteorol, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany

[2] Univ Hamburg, Inst Meteorol, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany

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SCIENCE | 2008年 / 322卷 / 5906期

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10.1126/science.1163381

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Kropelin et al. ( Research Articles, 9 May 2008, p. 765) interpreted a sediment record from Lake Yoa in the east- central part of North Africa as support for a weak biogeophysical climate- vegetation feedback in the Sahara during the mid- Holocene. We argue that the new data do not invalidate earlier modeling results on strong land- atmosphere coupling in the Western Sahara for which the Lake Yoa record is far less representative.

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