The pace and rhythm of climate: 600,000 years in a biological hotspot

该项目旨在为印度-太平洋暖池(IPWP)产生关于植被和降雨量长期变化的知识。IPWP通过与厄尔尼诺-南方涛动、南亚季风和热带辐合带的相互作用，对地球气候产生巨大影响。然而，尽管IPWP很重要，但它对全球气候变化的反应仍然不确定。通过孢粉学、古代沉积DNA和复合特定稳定同位素分析，该项目旨在创造苏拉威西过去600万年来的陆地植被、火灾和生物多样性记录。这一记录的无与伦比的长度和分辨率将使其成为古气候重建的基准，可能会改变我们对IPWP的理解。

This project aims to generate knowledge of long-term changes in vegetation and rainfall for the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP). The IPWP exerts enormous influence on the Earth’s climate through its interactions with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, the Austral–Asian monsoons and the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone. Yet despite its importance, the response of the IPWP to global climate change remains uncertain. Through palynology, ancient sedimentary DNA and compound specific stable isotope analyses, this project aims to produce a terrestrial vegetation, fire and biodiversity record for the last 600 000 years in Sulawesi. The unrivalled length and resolution of this record for the region would make it a benchmark reconstruction of palaeoclimate that may transform our understanding of the IPWP.