The Eocene climate of China, the early elevation of the Tibetan Plateau and the onset of the Asian Monsoon

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3709-3728

  Wang, Qing ^a,b,c   Spicer, Robert A ^a,d   Yang, Jian ^a   Wang, Yu Fei ^a   Li, Cheng Sen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b BEIJING RADIATION CENTER   (China)

^c LIAONING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asian Monsoon; China; Co existence approach; Eocene; Isogram map; Quantitative palaeoclimate reconstruction; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COEXISTENCE; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; MAPPING; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PALYNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

RAIN;

ARTICLE; ASIAN MONSOON; CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CO-EXISTENCE APPROACH; EOCENE; FOSSIL; ISOGRAM MAP; QUANTITATIVE PALAEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

ASIAN MONSOON; CHINA; CO-EXISTENCE APPROACH; EOCENE; ISOGRAM MAP; QUANTITATIVE PALAEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

CHINA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOSSILS; RAIN;

EID: 84887483231     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12336     Document Type: Article

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