Whether during past climate stages or into a progressively warming world, changes in
precipitation constitute a key component of climatic change. Quantitative proxies for palaeo …

Abstract Analysis of the stable carbon isotopes (δ 13 C) in organic material in various
geological archives has been widely used for paleoclimatic reconstruction. Consequently, it …

Glacial–interglacial changes in the distribution of C3/C4 vegetation on the Chinese Loess
Plateau have been related to East Asian summer monsoon intensity and position, and could …

Paleoclimatic research can provide critical insight on causes of change in the East Asian
monsoon, which influences the lives of 1.6 billion people today. In this study, we use …

The bacterial membrane lipid-based continental paleothermometer, the MBT/CBT or MBT′–
CBT proxy (methylation index of branched tetraethers/cyclization of branched tetraethers) …

The expansion of plants using the C4 photosynthetic pathway is one of the most prominent
changes in the global ecosystem during the Cenozoic Era. A significant late Miocene …

Grasses (Poaceae) are distributed across the world in broad latitudinal belts and are an
important source of C4 biomass in the geological record of soils as well as lake and marine …

The variability and dynamics of the Asian monsoon (AM, hereafter indicates both of the
summer and winter monsoons.) at orbital and millennial timescales has attracted wide …

High resolution records for long chain n-alkane and n-alkanol biomarkers have been
obtained by extraction of sediments from the profiles of Luochan (0–36ka) and Xunyi (0 …

Long chain n-alkanes (C 27–C 33) in lake sediment records are commonly considered to be
terrestrial plant biomarkers when reconstructing paleoclimatic and paleolimnological history …