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Quantitative climatic reconstruction of the Last Glacial Maximum in China
Quantitative paleoclimatic reconstruction is crucial for understanding the operation and evolution of the global climate system. For example, a quantitative paleoclimatic reconstruction for the Last Glacial Ma...
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Open AccessVegetation evolution and its response to climatic change during 3.15–0.67 Ma in deep-sea pollen record from northern South China Sea
In order to study vegetation evolution and environmental change during 3.15–0.67 Ma, a total of 608 pollen samples with an average time resolution of 4 ka has been analyzed from ODP Site 1145 (water depth 3175...
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Palaeoenvironmental changes from pollen record in deep sea core PC-1 from northern Okinawa Trough, East China Sea during the past 24 ka
A pollen record of core PC-1 from the northern Okinawa Trough, East China Sea (ECS), provides information on vegetation and climate changes since 24 cal. kaBP. A total of 103 samples were palynologically analy...
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Comparison of climatic threshold of geographical distribution between dominant plants and surface pollen in China
The geographical distribution of dominant plant species in China was georeferenced and climatic variables were interpolated into all grids. Accordingly, the percentage distributions of principal pollen taxa ba...
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Based on deep-sea pollen results (512–76 m) from ODP Site 1143 in the southern South China Sea (SCS), the climate and vegetation evolution sequence on the surrounding islands and the exposed continental shelf ...
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In order to study vegetation evolution and environmental change since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), a total of 180 pollen samples with an average time resolution of 150 years were analyzed on the top parts (...
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Evolution of the South China Sea and monsoon history revealed in deep-sea records
As the third summary report of ODP Leg 184 to the South China Sea (SCS), this paper discusses the evolution of the East Asian monsoon and the SCS basin. A multi-proxy approach, involving geochemistry, micropal...
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Deep-sea pollen research in China
This paper briefly presents the progress of deep-sea pollen research in China since the beginning of ninetieths of the last Century. All the deep-sea pollen contributions mainly come from the South China Sea (...
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Records of natural fire and climate history during the last three glacial-interglacial cycles around the South China Sea
The history of natural fire and its relationship to climate during the last three glacial-interglacial cycles in the Southern coast areas of China and the northern continental shelf of the South China Sea (SCS...
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Pollen record of the last 280 ka from deep sea sediments of the northern South China Sea
Environmental history of the northern continental shelf of the South China Sea during the last 280 ka BP, e.g. Marine Isotope Stages 1–8 (MIS 1–8) was reconstructed based on pollen record from the top 225m of ...
