Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and climate history inferred from an alpine lacustrine record, northwestern Yunnan Province, southwestern China

X ** of world grassland types
AP Dixon, D Faber‐Langendoen, C Josse… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim National and international policy frameworks, such as the European Union's
Renewable Energy Directive, increasingly seek to conserve and reference 'highly biodiverse …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011 - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

A Holocene pollen record from the northwestern Himalayan lake Tso Moriri: implications for palaeoclimatic and archaeological research

C Leipe, D Demske, PE Tarasov, HP Members - Quaternary International, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new fossil pollen record from Tso Moriri (32° 54′ N, 78° 19′ E, 4512
m asl) and seeks to reconstruct changes in mean annual precipitation (MAP) during the last …

A modern pollen–climate calibration set based on lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau and its application to a Late Quaternary pollen record from the Qilian …

U Herzschuh, HJB Birks, S Mischke… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Fossil pollen spectra from lake sediments on the Tibetan Plateau have been used for
qualitative climate reconstruction, but no modern pollen–climate calibration set based on …

Application and limitations of the Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio in arid and semi-arid China

Y Zhao, H Liu, F Li, X Huang, J Sun, W Zhao… - The …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae (A/C) ratio is assumed to be a useful index for
reconstructing moisture changes in arid and semi-arid regions. Thorough modern pollen …

Moisture dynamics in central Asia for the last 15 kyr: new evidence from Yili Valley, **njiang, NW China

X Li, K Zhao, J Dodson, X Zhou - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Based on high resolution palynological investigations and AMS14C dating, the continuous
lacustrine sediments contained in Yili Valley, **njiang provide an opportunity to reconstruct …

A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (**ning Basin, China)

C Hoorn, J Straathof, HA Abels, Y Xu, T Utescher… - Palaeogeography …, 2012 - Elsevier
Climate models suggest that Asian paleoenvironments, monsoons and continental
aridification were primarily governed by tectonic uplift and sea retreat since the Eocene with …

[HTML][HTML] Modern pollen distribution in moss samples along an elevational gradient in southeast Tibet

Q Ma, L Zhu, R Yang, L Huang, J Wang, L Tang - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Modern pollen distribution and its relationship to vegetation and climate in the lower Yarlung
Zangbo River are investigated to provide a reference for paleoenvironmental …