Timing of Late Quaternary palaeolake evolution in Tengger Desert of northern China and its possible forcing mechanisms

H Long, ZP Lai, M Fuchs, JR Zhang, Y Li - Global and Planetary Change, 2012 - Elsevier
Palaeolake evolution history has been used to reconstruct the Late Quaternary
environmental and climatic conditions in East Asian monsoon area. In this study, based on …

A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China)

C Hoorn, J Straathof, HA Abels, Y Xu, T Utescher… - Palaeogeography …, 2012 - Elsevier
Climate models suggest that Asian paleoenvironments, monsoons and continental
aridification were primarily governed by tectonic uplift and sea retreat since the Eocene with …

Holocene climate variations from Zhuyeze terminal lake records in East Asian monsoon margin in arid northern China

H Long, ZP Lai, NA Wang, Y Li - Quaternary Research, 2010 - cambridge.org
Zhuyeze palaeolake is a terminal lake situated in the arid northern China in the East Asian
monsoon margin. In order to examine the Holocene palaeoclimatic change in the East Asian …

Warming‐induced northwestward migration of the Asian summer monsoon in the geological past: Evidence from climate simulations and geological reconstructions

X Huang, S Yang, A Haywood, D Jiang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The cold and warm intervals during the Plio‐Pleistocene provide an opportunity to assess
the response of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) to different levels of global warming. In …

Differences of modern pollen assemblages from lake sediments and surface soils in arid and semi-arid China and their significance for pollen-based quantitative …

Y Zhao, Q Xu, X Huang, X Guo, S Tao - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Modern pollen samples from lake sediments, moss polsters or surface soils are commonly
used to interpret fossil pollen records. An increasing number of Holocene pollen records has …

Substantial inorganic carbon sink in closed drainage basins globally

Y Li, C Zhang, N Wang, Q Han, X Zhang, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Arid and semi-arid ecosystems are increasingly recognized as important carbon storage
sites. In these regions, extensive sequestration of dissolved inorganic carbon can occur in …

Transitions in palaeoecology and technology: hunter-gatherers and early herders in the Gobi Desert

L Janz, D Odsuren, D Bukhchuluun - Journal of World Prehistory, 2017 - Springer
The desert and arid steppes of Mongolia and northern China were geographically central to
the spread of pastoralism and the rise of pastoralist states, but research on the …

Mineral magnetic variation of the minle loess/palaeosol sequence of the late glacial to holocene period in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

J Xiong, Y Zhong, C Liu, Q Liu, H Zhang… - Geophysical Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Located at the modern junction of the Asian Summer Monsoon and the Westerlies, the
northeastern Tibetan Plateau and western Chinese Loess Plateau are in distinct climatic …

Synchronous or asynchronous Holocene Indian and East Asian summer monsoon evolution: A synthesis on Holocene Asian summer monsoon simulations, records …

Y Li, N Wang, X Zhou, C Zhang, Y Wang - Global and Planetary Change, 2014 - Elsevier
Holocene climate records obtained from the Asian summer monsoon domain suggest a
regionally-delineated response to changing summer monsoon. The interaction between the …

Surface soil phytolith assemblages across an altitudinal transect in the Qilian Mountains of Northwestern China, and their implications for palaeoecologic analysis in …

X Li, S Dong, Z Li, X Peng, Y Shen, Q Jin, X Yu… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Reconstructing changes in altitudinal vegetation belts is crucial for comprehending
vegetation response to past environmental changes in arid alpine regions, however, proxy …