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A gradual change is more likely to have caused the Mid-Pleistocene Transition than an abrupt event
The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (~1.2–0.8 million years) corresponds to a time interval when high-amplitude ~100,000 years glacial–interglacial cycles...
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Northern hemisphere ice sheet expansion intensified Asian aridification and the winter monsoon across the mid-Pleistocene transition
The mid-Pleistocene transition 1.25 to 0.6 million years ago marked a major shift in global climate periodicity from 41,000 to around 100,000 years...
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Evidence of Arctic methane emissions across the mid-Pleistocene
During the Pleistocene, Earth’s climate changed dramatically. The mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT; ~1.3–0.7 million years (Ma)) featured an important...
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Increased interglacial atmospheric CO2 levels followed the mid-Pleistocene Transition
Atmospheric CO 2 and polar ice volume have been strongly coupled over the past 805,000 years. However, the prior extent of coupling, during times of...
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The Mid-Pleistocene Transition: a delayed response to an increasing positive feedback?
Glacial–interglacial cycles constitute large natural variations in Earth’s climate. The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) marks a shift of the...
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Environmental dynamics of the western European Mediterranean landscape during the Pleistocene to Holocene transition
A strategic aim of research into climate change in the distant past is to respond to the contemporary challenges of global warming at the present....
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Onset of Mid-Pleistocene glaciation in the Eastern Himalayan syntaxis
The Tibetan Plateau contains the largest numbers of glaciers outside the polar regions, yet the initiation times of glacial advances remain unclear....
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Moist and warm conditions in Eurasia during the last glacial of the Middle Pleistocene Transition
The end of the Middle Pleistocene Transition (MPT, ~ 800-670 thousand years before present, ka) was characterised by the emergence of large glacial...
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Magnetic minerals in Mid-Pleistocene sediments on the Caiwei Guyot, Northwest Pacific and their response to the Mid-Brunhes climate event
Seamounts are ubiquitous topographic units in global oceans, and their influences on local oceanic circulation have attracted great attention in...
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The influence of subpolar marine ice expansion on global climate in the Early Pleistocene
Major climatic-environmental transitions and ecological shifts occurred during the mid-Early Pleistocene, a time when external forcing conditions...
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Orbital- and millennial-scale Asian winter monsoon variability across the Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial intensification
Intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation (iNHG), ~2.7 million years ago (Ma), led to establishment of the Pleistocene to present-day bipolar...
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Middle Pleistocene re-organization of Australian Monsoon
The sensitivity of the Australian Monsoon to changing climate boundary conditions remains controversial due to limited understanding of forcing...
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Pliocene and Pleistocene lagomorphs (Mammalia) from Northwest Africa: new discoveries
This work describes and interprets fossil lagomorphs from seven sites in the Maghreb the ages of which range from the Miocene/Pliocene boundary to...
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Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal
Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies first appear in the archaeological records of northern, eastern and southern Africa during the Middle Pleistocene...
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Astronomical forcing shaped the timing of early Pleistocene glacial cycles
Glacial cycles during the early Pleistocene are characterised by a dominant 41,000-year periodicity and amplitudes smaller than those of glacial...
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Waterfowl Eggshell Refines Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction and Supports Multi-species Niche Construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Levant
Utilising multiple lines of evidence for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction improves our understanding of the past landscapes in which human...
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Ecological stability of Late Pleistocene-to-Holocene Lesotho, southern Africa, facilitated human upland habitation
Investigation of Homo sapiens ’ palaeogeographic expansion into African mountain environments are changing the understanding of our species’ adaptions...
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Cuban Macaw Ara tricolor in the Upper Pleistocene of Western Cuba
AbstractThe Cuban macaw Ara tricolor (Bechstein, 1811) is an extinct species of large parrots. Its historical distribution and ecology are poorly...
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Biogeochemistry of sedimentary organic matter in the Yongjiang River estuary in the southern part of Hangzhou Bay, China, since the Late Pleistocene
A sediment core (YJK19-02) collected from the southern outlet of Hangzhou Bay near the Yongjiang River estuary in East China was analyzed for grain...
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Early Pleistocene East Antarctic temperature in phase with local insolation
Pleistocene glacial–interglacial cycles are hypothesized to be modulated by Earth’s orbital parameters through their influence on the Northern...
