Insights into late Quaternary vegetation and climate dynamics in Monsoon Asia obtained from numerical pollen-based reconstructions

• Main Author: Leipe, Christian
• Other Authors: [e-mail], m, Prof. Dr. Pavel E. Tarasov, Prof. Dr. Frank Riedel
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Late Quaternary; Palaeoclimate research; Pollen; Non-pollen palynomorphs; Vegetation history; Human–environment interaction; ddc:500; ddc:560; ddc:561; Alpine Lake; Indian; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/6632; https://doi.org/10.17169/refubium-10831; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudissthesis000000097729-1

The Asian monsoon is one of the major components of the world’s climate system. The monsoon circulation during the warm half of the year (the Asian summer monsoon) brings significant amounts of precipitation – mainly between May and September – to a vast area of South and East Asia stretching from t...