Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years–a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group

JM Reeves, HC Bostock, LK Ayliffe, TT Barrows… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The tropics are the major source of heat and moisture for the Australasian region.
Determining the tropics' response over time to changes in climate forcing mechanisms, such …

Climate variability over the last 35,000 years recorded in marine and terrestrial archives in the Australian region: an OZ-INTIMATE compilation

JM Reeves, TT Barrows, TJ Cohen, AS Kiem… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
The Australian region spans some 60° of latitude and 50° of longitude and displays
considerable regional climate variability both today and during the Late Quaternary. A …

Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

EW Slessarev, Y Lin, NL Bingham, JE Johnson, Y Dai… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Soil pH regulates the capacity of soils to store and supply nutrients, and thus contributes
substantially to controlling productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. However, soil pH is not an …

Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia

R Tobler, A Rohrlach, J Soubrier, P Bover, B Llamas… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Aboriginal Australians represent one of the longest continuous cultural complexes known.
Archaeological evidence indicates that Australia and New Guinea were initially settled …

Human refugia in Australia during the Last Glacial Maximum and Terminal Pleistocene: a geospatial analysis of the 25–12 ka Australian archaeological record

AN Williams, S Ulm, AR Cook, MC Langley… - Journal of archaeological …, 2013 - Elsevier
A number of models, developed primarily in the 1980s, propose that Aboriginal Australian
populations contracted to refugia–well-watered ranges and major riverine systems–in …

Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene

BA Christensen, W Renema… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Late Miocene to mid‐Pleistocene sedimentary proxy records reveal that northwest
Australia underwent an abrupt transition from dry to humid climate conditions at 5.5 million …

Twelve thousand years of dust: the Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives

S Albani, NM Mahowald, G Winckler… - Climate of the …, 2015 - cp.copernicus.org
Mineral dust plays an important role in the climate system by interacting with radiation,
clouds, and biogeochemical cycles. In addition, natural archives show that the dust cycle …

The hydrological legacy of deforestation on global wetlands

C Woodward, J Shulmeister, J Larsen, GE Jacobsen… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Increased catchment erosion and nutrient loading are commonly recognized impacts of
deforestation on global wetlands. In contrast, an increase in water availability in deforested …

Life in the “dead heart” of Australia: The geohistory of the Australian deserts and its impact on genetic diversity of arid zone lizards

M Pepper, JS Keogh - Journal of Biogeography, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Australian deserts are home to a remarkable diversity of taxa that might
appear to have evolved in the absence of topographic and physical barriers to dispersal. In …

A continental narrative: Human settlement patterns and Australian climate change over the last 35,000 years

AN Williams, P Veth, W Steffen, S Ulm… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Drawing on the recent synthesis of Australian palaeoclimate by the OZ-INTIMATE group
(Reeves et al., 2013a), we consider the effects of climate systems on past human settlement …