Numerous studies of changes in the climate, vegetation and landscape responses of the
Tibetan Plateau (TP) during the Holocene have been published in recent decades …

There is a great deal of controversy regarding the fate of glaciers and ice fields on the
Tibetan Plateau in the face of continued anthropogenic global warming. Paleoclimate …

Increasing evidence has emerged for non-random spatial distributions of microbes, but
knowledge of the processes that cause variation in microbial assemblage among …

The modern Indian summer monsoon (ISM) is characterized by exceptionally strong
interhemispheric transport, indicating the importance of both Northern and Southern …

The Asian Monsoon forms an important part of the earth's climate system, yet our
understanding of the past interactions between its different sub-systems, the East Asian and …

The winter and summer monsoons in Southeast Asia are important but highly variable
sources of rainfall. Current understanding of the winter monsoon is limited by conflicting …

Abstract Caesium-137 (137 Cs) has no natural source and is commonly employed in
establishing the chronology of recent lake sediments in the Anthropocene epoch. Because …

Abstract Knowledge of natural long-term drought variability is essential for water resource
management and planning, especially in arid and sub-arid regions of the world. In the …

Pollen records from large lakes have been used for quantitative palaeoclimate
reconstruction, but the influences that lake size (as a result of species-specific variations in …

End-member modelling algorithms extract valuable information from grain-size distribution
datasets, such as provenance, transport and sedimentation processes, which can …