Quaternary ecological responses and impacts of the Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon at Nam Co, Southern Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 112, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-77

  Günther, Franziska ^a   Witt, Roman ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^b,c   Mäusbacher, Roland ^d   Daut, Gerhard ^d   Zhu, Liping ^e   Xu, Baiqing ^e   Yao, Tandong ^e   Gleixner, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological thresholds; GDGTs; Hydrogen isotopes ( D); Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon (IOSM); N Alkanes; Precipitation; Temperature; Time lag; 13Corg; 15N

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLYCEROL; HYDROCARBONS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAFFINS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); TEMPERATURE;

ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLDS; GDGTS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; N-ALKANES; SUMMER MONSOON; TIME LAG;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; INTERGLACIAL; LAST GLACIAL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

CHINA; INDIAN OCEAN; NAM CO; XIZANG;

EID: 84922700279     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.023     Document Type: Article

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