The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

Speleothems are now regarded as valuable archives of climatic conditions on the
continents, offering a number of advantages relative to other continental climate proxy …

Salinity is a fundamental property of watermasses that is useful in paleoenvironmental and
paleoecological studies, yet the theory of application of geochemical proxies to paleosalinity …

Speleothems are primarily studied in order to generate archives of climatic change and
results have led to significant advances in identifying and dating major shifts in the climate …

Speleothems are now established as important palaeoenvironmental archives and contain a
number of suitable proxies, although trace elements have been much less widely used than …

Carbon and oxygen isotopes in calcite speleothems are powerful proxies for understanding
past climate change. For calcite deposited under isotopic equilibrium conditions, variations …

An increasing number of scientists recognize the value of speleothems1 as often extremely
well-preserved archives of information about past climate, vegetation, hydrology, sea level …

Central Asia (CA) is one of the world's most significant arid regions, which is markedly
impacted by global warming. A better understanding of the dynamical processes governing …

A severe drought in parts of low-latitude northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia∼ 4200
yr ago caused major disruption to ancient civilizations. Stable isotope, trace element, and …

High spatial resolution measurements of Mg, P, U, Sr, Ba and Na using 193-nm excimer
laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry has revealed clearly …