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 …

The Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), recognized as the world's largest loess plateau, has
been a subject of ongoing debate regarding the continuity of its sedimentary loess sequence …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) hosts the largest alpine ecosystem in the world, and
aeolian loess is an essential component of this ecosystem and landscape. However, little is …

Parametric curve-fitting techniques are routinely adopted to derive the components of
individual grain-size distributions of sediment samples. However, due to the lack of …

One of the biggest challenges in optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating is to deal
with sediments that are affected by post-depositional mixing. Equivalent dose (D e) …

Parametric decomposition techniques including single-sample unmixing and parametric end-
member modelling are routine mathematical methods used for interpreting grain-size …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is extremely sensitive to climate change. However,
climate variability during the last glaciation in the TP is not well-understood. The widely …

Aeolian sediments usually indicate glacial or periglacial arid-climate conditions, and
knowledge of their sedimentary character and mineral composition can reveal the locality's …

Reconstructing the Mid-Holocene climate change in arid and semiarid areas can help
predict regional moisture availability and resultant lake evolution and vegetation changes …

Chinese loess deposits are one of the most important terrestrial archives for understanding
past climate change and global atmospheric circulation. However, the nature of loess …