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Modern pollen-vegetation relationships along altitudinal vegetation belts in the Leigong Mountain of southwestern China
Understanding the distribution, dispersal, and correlation of modern pollen with vegetation in mountainous regions is essential for establishing accurate modern analogs for fossil pollen records. This study, c...
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Paleoclimatic indication of X-ray fluorescence core-scanned Rb/Sr ratios: A case study in the Zoige Basin in the eastern Tibetan Plateau
The X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core-scanned Rb/Sr ratios of lake sediments have been widely used as a proxy for chemical weathering intensity and past climate change. However, some factors could affect Rb/Sr rat...
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Relative pollen productivity estimates for alpine meadow vegetation, northeastern Tibetan Plateau
A promising method of reconstructing past vegetation from pollen records uses mathematical models of the relationship between pollen and vegetation. These can be calibrated using the extended R-value (ERV) app...
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Changes in vegetation and moisture in the northern Tianshan of China over the past 450 years
Knowledge of historical changes in moisture within semi-arid and arid regions is the basis of climatic change predictions and strategies in response to long-term drought. In this study, a multiproxy peat recor...
