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 …

The role of paleogeography in Asian monsoon evolution: A review and new insights from climate modelling

D Tardif, AC Sarr, F Fluteau, A Licht, M Kaya… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian monsoons are triggered by complex interactions between the atmosphere, Asian
and African orography, and the surrounding oceans, resulting in highly seasonal climate …

Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt, SA Robinson, PJ Valdes… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The East Asian monsoon plays an integral role in human society, yet its geological history
and controlling processes are poorly understood. Using a general circulation model and …

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 …

The Coexistence Approach—Theoretical background and practical considerations of using plant fossils for climate quantification

T Utescher, AA Bruch, B Erdei, L François… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coexistence Approach was established by Mosbrugger and Utescher (1997)
as a plant-based method to reconstruct palaeoclimate by considering recent climatic …

Miocene to Pleistocene floras and climate of the Eastern Himalayan Siwaliks, and new palaeoelevation estimates for the Namling–Oiyug Basin, Tibet

MA Khan, RA Spicer, S Bera, R Ghosh, J Yang… - Global and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Four fossil floras ranging in age from the mid Miocene to the early Pleistocene from the
eastern Siwaliks near Darjeeling and in Arunachal Pradesh (AP) were compared …

Evidence for the repeated occurrence of wildfires in an upper Pliocene lignite deposit from Yunnan, SW China

B Liu, R Spiekermann, C Zhao, W Puettmann… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Charcoal remains and bulk lignites collected from the late Pliocene Jinsuo Basin in Yunnan,
southwestern China, have been studied to reveal changes in the wildfire regime related to …

Tibetan Plateau: An evolutionary junction for the history of modern biodiversity

T Deng, F Wu, Z Zhou, T Su - Science China Earth Sciences, 2020 - Springer
Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-
geographic-biotic interactively unite and hence play an important role in the global …

Asian Eocene monsoons as revealed by leaf architectural signatures

RA Spicer, J Yang, AB Herman, T Kodrul… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
The onset and development of the Asian monsoon systems is a topic that has attracted
considerable research effort but proxy data limitations, coupled with a diversity of definitions …

The early Oligocene establishment of modern topography and plant diversity on the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

M Wu, J Huang, RA Spicer, S Li, J Zhao, W Deng… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantifying the interactions between topography, climate and plant diversity within one of
the world's biodiversity hotspots, the southeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, remains …