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Orbital variations as a major driver of climate and biome distribution during the greenhouse to icehouse transition

Guillaume Le Hir
Natasha Barbolini
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet

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Recent studies suggest increasing sensitivity to orbital variations across the Eocene-Oligocene greenhouse to icehouse climate transition. However, climate simulations and paleoenvironmental studies mostly provide snapshots of the past climate, therefore overlooking the role of this short-term variability in driving major environmental changes and possibly biasing model-data comparisons. We address this problem by performing numerical simulations describing the end-members of eccentricity, obliquity, and precession. The orbitally induced biome variability obtained in our simulations allows to reconcile previous apparent mismatch between models and paleobotanical compilations. We show that precession-driven intermittent monsoon-like climate may have taken place during the Eocene, resulting in biomes shifting from shrubland to tropical forest in the intertropical convergence zone migration region. Our Oligocene simulations suggest that, along with decreased pCO 2 , orbital variations crucially modulated major faunal dispersal events around the EOT such as the Grande Coupure by creating and fragmenting the biome corridors along several key land bridges.

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insu-03401267 , version 1 (25-10-2021)

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Delphine Tardif, Agathe Toumoulin, Frédéric Fluteau, Yannick Donnadieu, Guillaume Le Hir, et al.. Orbital variations as a major driver of climate and biome distribution during the greenhouse to icehouse transition. Science Advances , 2021, 7 (43), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.abh2819⟩. ⟨insu-03401267⟩
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