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

Eocene palynological samples from 37 widely distributed sites across China were analysed using co-existence approach to determine trends in space and time for seven palaeoclimate variables: Mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, mean temperature of the warmest month, mean temperature of...

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Published in:Global Change Biology
Main Authors: Wang, Qing, Spicer, Robert A., Yang, Jian, Wang, Yu-Fei, Li, Cheng-Sen
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: WILEY 2013
Subjects:
Asian Monsoon
China
co-existence approach
Eocene
isogram map
quantitative palaeoclimate reconstruction
Tibetan Plateau
Biodiversity Conservation
Ecology
Environmental Sciences
TERRESTRIAL PALEOCLIMATE
COEXISTENCE APPROACH
UPLIFT
EVOLUTION
POLLEN
MIOCENE
RECONSTRUCTION
SENSITIVITY
GREENLAND
COLLISION
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
Greenland
Online Access:http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/28022
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12336
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Summary:Eocene palynological samples from 37 widely distributed sites across China were analysed using co-existence approach to determine trends in space and time for seven palaeoclimate variables: Mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, mean temperature of the warmest month, mean temperature of the coldest month, mean annual range of temperature, mean maximum monthly precipitation and mean minimum monthly precipitation. Present day distributions and observed climates within China of the nearest living relatives of the fossil forms were used to find the range of a given variable in which a maximum number of taxa can coexist. Isotherm and isohyet maps for the early, middle and late Eocene were constructed. These illustrate regional changing patterns in thermal and precipitational gradients that may be interpreted as the beginnings of the modern Asian Monsoon system, and suggest that the uplift of parts of the Tibetan Plateau appear to have taken place by the middle to late Eocene.

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