Tectonics, climate and the diversification of the tropical African terrestrial flora and fauna

TLP Couvreur, G Dauby, A Blach‐Overgaard… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation

EL McClymont, SL Ho, HL Ford, I Bailey… - Reviews of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Pliocene Epoch (∼ 5.3–2.6 million years ago, Ma) was characterized by a
warmer than present climate with smaller Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, and offers an …

The configuration of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets through the Quaternary

CL Batchelor, M Margold, M Krapp, DK Murton… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Our understanding of how global climatic changes are translated into ice-sheet fluctuations
and sea-level change is currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the configuration of ice …

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

CD Bacon, D Silvestro, C Jaramillo, BT Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
The linking of North and South America by the Isthmus of Panama had major impacts on
global climate, oceanic and atmospheric currents, and biodiversity, yet the timing of this …

Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

EJ Rohling, GL Foster, KM Grant, G Marino, AP Roberts… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Ice volume (and hence sea level) and deep-sea temperature are key measures of global
climate change. Sea level has been documented using several independent methods over …

[کتاب][B] The anthropocene: A multidisciplinary approach

JA Thomas, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz - 2020‏ - books.google.com
Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th
century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and …

2.8 million years of Arctic climate change from Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

M Melles, J Brigham-Grette, PS Minyuk, NR Nowaczyk… - science, 2012‏ - science.org
The reliability of Arctic climate predictions is currently hampered by insufficient knowledge of
natural climate variability in the past. A sediment core from Lake El'gygytgyn in northeastern …

[کتاب][B] Quaternary glaciations-extent and chronology: a closer look

J Ehlers, PL Gibbard, PD Hughes - 2011‏ - books.google.com
The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over
the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms …

[کتاب][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014‏ - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Patterns and mechanisms of early Pliocene warmth

AV Fedorov, CM Brierley, KT Lawrence, Z Liu… - nature, 2013‏ - nature.com
About five to four million years ago, in the early Pliocene epoch, Earth had a warm,
temperate climate. The gradual cooling that followed led to the establishment of modern …