Reorganization of the Asian climate from one dominated by global planetary wind systems
to a regional monsoon climate is closely related to the surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau …

As the largest depression in the Tibetan plateau, the Qaidam basin preserves over 10 km
thick of Cenozoic sediments. Those sediments represent a unique archive of the evolution of …

The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

The Asian monsoons are triggered by complex interactions between the atmosphere, Asian
and African orography, and the surrounding oceans, resulting in highly seasonal climate …

Palearctic water frogs (genus Pelophylax) are an outstanding model in ecology and
evolution, being widespread, speciose, either threatened or threatening to other species …

The Paleogene environment of today's semi-arid and arid Central Asia is poorly quantified
and knowledge of the paleoelevation of northern Tibet remains elusive, yet both are crucially …

Abstract The proto‐Paratethys Sea covered a vast area extending from the Mediterranean
Tethys to the Tarim Basin in western China during Cretaceous and early Paleogene …

Asian Monsoon rainfall supports the livelihood of billions of people, yet the relative
importance of different drivers remains an issue of great debate. Here, we present 30 million …

Abstract The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) at∼ 34 Ma marked a significant global
cooling on Earth when the ice cover in the Antarctic was formed. How the regional …

Lake hydrological change and its driving mechanisms in the Eocene warmhouse climate are
important to evaluating environmental and ecological changes induced by global warming …