Reorganization of Asian climate in relation to Tibetan Plateau uplift

F Wu, X Fang, Y Yang, G Dupont-Nivet, J Nie… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Reorganization of the Asian climate from one dominated by global planetary wind systems
to a regional monsoon climate is closely related to the surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau …

Understanding the causes and consequences of the northward extension of the tropical monsoon in Asia in the Eocene

Z Zhang, Z Zhang, Q Yan, Z He, N Tan, Z Guo - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous geological studies have revealed that a zonal climate pattern with an arid zonal
band prevailed in the mid-latitude of East Asia in the Paleogene. On the south of the arid …

Expansion of C4 plants in South China and evolution of east Asian monsoon since 35 ma: black carbon records in the northern South China Sea

M Li, S Wan, C Colin, H Jin, D Zhao, W Pei… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence and expansion of terrestrial C 4 vegetation represent the most striking
evolutionary adaptation of ecosystems to climate change during the Cenozoic. However, the …

Stepwise hydroclimate changes in Northeast China linked to proto-Paratethys Sea retreats and global cooling during the Eocene

Y Xie, F Wu, Y Jiang, L Yang - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous paleoenvironmental studies have revealed three latitudinally distributed climate
zones across East Asia during the Eocene, including a vast humid climate zone in northeast …

Late Eocene onset of the East Asian Monsoon in the Qingjiang Basin of Central Jiangxi Province (Southeast China) revealed by a major vegetation transition from …

Y Xie, F Wu, X Fang, J Song, Z Niu - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vast humid regions in southeast China are strongly influenced by the East Asian
Monsoon (EAM); however, the origin and underlying mechanisms driving the EAM in this …

Abrupt collapse of a swamp ecosystem in northeast China during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum

Y Xie, F Wu, X Fang - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM,~ 56 Ma) was a geologically
abrupt and extreme global warming event that had a profound effect on global climate and …

New evidence of the emergence of the East Asian monsoon in the early Palaeogene

LF Su, QQ Zhang, YK Sun, SL Zhang, T Smith… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Previous palaeoenvironmental reconstructions have implied that East Asia was dominated
by a zonal climate pattern during the Eocene, with an almost latitudinal arid/semiarid band …

Monsoonal climate of East Asia in Eocene times inferred from an analysis of plant functional types

Q Li, T Utescher, YC Liu, D Ferguson, H Jia… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
The spatio-temporal vegetation patterns of East Asia in the Eocene remain uncertain. In this
present paper, we conduct numerical analyses of plant functional types (PFTs) for 80 …

Northward expansion of Cenozoic Asian humid climate recorded by sporopollen

F Wu, F Tang, S Gao, Y Xie, Y Jiang, X Fang… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
The distribution pattern of arid–humid climate in the modern northwest–southeast
confrontation in Asia evolved from the zonal distribution pattern of the Paleogene. However …

A transient south subtropical forest ecosystem in central China driven by rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Y Xie, F Wu, X Fang - Gondwana Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) profoundly
affected the marine and terrestrial environments. However, details of the climate and …