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 …

The role of the uplift of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

A Favre, M Päckert, SU Pauls, SC Jähnig… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity is unevenly distributed on Earth and hotspots of biodiversity are often
associated with areas that have undergone orogenic activity during recent geological history …

Orographic evolution of northern Tibet shaped vegetation and plant diversity in eastern Asia

SF Li, PJ Valdes, A Farnsworth, T Davies-Barnard… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The growth of the Tibetan Plateau throughout the past 66 million years has profoundly
affected the Asian climate, but how this unparalleled orogenesis might have driven …

Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia

N Barbolini, A Woutersen, G Dupont-Nivet… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

What controlled Mid–Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia?—Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review

Y Miao, M Herrmann, F Wu, X Yan, S Yang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Debate continues over whether global cooling or uplift of the Tibetan Plateau provided the
first-order driver for the aridification (moisture levels) of Central Asia throughout the Mid …

High-resolution magnetostratigraphic study of the Paleogene-Neogene strata in the Northern Qaidam Basin: Implications for the growth of the Northeastern Tibetan …

J Ji, K Zhang, PD Clift, G Zhuang, B Song, X Ke… - Gondwana …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cenozoic terrestrial, intermontane Qaidam Basin on the northeastern edge of
the Tibetan Plateau contains> 12 km of sedimentary rocks that potentially document the …

Cenozoic magnetostratigraphy of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau, and its constraints on paleontological, sedimentological and tectonomorphological evolution

X Fang, Y Fang, J Zan, W Zhang, C Song, E Appel… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Xining Basin is well known for its thick and continuous sequence of fine-
grained Cenozoic sediments. In addition, it contains important Xiejia fauna which define the …

Desert ecosystems in China: Past, present, and future

X Wang, X Geng, B Liu, D Cai, D Li, F Xiao, B Zhu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
As the largest ecosystem of China, the desert ecosystem and the desertification-prone
region (DPR) occupies 44% of China's land area. The past, present, and the future of …

Evolution of the monsoon and dry climate in East Asia during late Cenozoic: a review

HY Lu, ZT Guo - Science China Earth Sciences, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Climate in Eastern Asia is composed of monsoon climate in the east, arid and semi-
arid climate in the north and west, and the cold and dry climate of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in …

Reconstructing the evolution and biogeographic history of tribe Cardueae (Compositae)

L Barres, I Sanmartín, CL Anderson… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Tribe Cardueae (thistles) forms one of the largest tribes in the family
Compositae (2400 species), with representatives in almost every continent. The greatest …