Summer monsoon intensity controls C4/C3 plant abundance during the last 35 ka in the Chinese Loess Plateau: Carbon isotope evidence from bulk organic matter and individual leaf waxes

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 220, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 243-254

  Liu, Weiguo ^a,b,c   Huang, Yongsong ^b   An, Zhisheng ^a   Clemens, Steven C ^b   Li, Li ^a   Prell, Warren L ^b   Ning, Youfeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Loess paleosol; Paleoclimate; Paleovegetation

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; VEGETATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; WORLD;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 18044387228     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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