Holocene warming and evergreen/deciduous forest replacement across eastern China

Z Zheng, C Chen, K Huang, X Zhang, P Kershaw… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Combined variations of insolation and ice sheet led to major global climatic and ecosystem
changes between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Holocene. However, little is …

Inconsistent patterns of Holocene rainfall changes at the East Asian monsoon margin compared to the core monsoon region

X Zhou, T Zhan, N Tan, L Tu, JP Smol, S Jiang… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Documenting spatiotemporal patterns of the Holocene Optimum (HO) at the climatically
sensitive East Asian monsoon (EAM) margin are essential for understanding monsoon …

Monthly insolation linked to the time-transgressive nature of the Holocene East Asian monsoon precipitation maximum

X Zhou, T Zhan, L Tu, JP Smol, S Jiang, X Liu… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
More than 10% of the world's population lives in the East Asian monsoon (EAM) region,
where precipitation patterns are critical to agricultural and industrial activities. However, the …

Strengthened East Asian winter monsoon regulated by insolation and Arctic sea ice since the middle Holocene

P Zhou, X Li, Z Shi, Y Sha, J Lei… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) is a crucial climate system in Asia, with
significant social and economic impacts. Orbital‐scale variability of the EAWM during the …

Microcharcoals Reveal More Grass Than Trees During the Mid‐Holocene Optimum on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Z Wang, Y Miao, Y Zou, Y Zhao, W Han… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microcharcoal morphology, which changes with biofuel type in the wildfire, can be used as
an index for wildfire history and vegetation evolution. Here, five loess sites across the …

Transient vegetation degradation reinforced rapid climate change (RCC) events during the Holocene

X Li, X Liu, Z Pan, Z Shi, X Xie, H Ma, J Zhai… - npj Climate and …, 2023 - nature.com
High-resolution multi-proxies from geological archives have revealed a series of rapid
climate change (RCC) events during the Holocene. These events coincided with the so …

Vegetation response to climate change and human activity in southwestern China since the Last Glacial Maximum

K Li, M Liao, J Ni - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2024 - Elsevier
Southwestern China, a biodiversity hotspot, underwent dramatic climate change following
the Last Glacial Maximum and intensive human activity also exerted a major impact since …

Grand dipole response of Asian summer monsoon to orbital forcing

Q Wen, Z Liu, Z Jing, SC Clemens, Y Wang… - npj Climate and …, 2024 - nature.com
The coherent continental-wide speleothem water isotope records are accompanied by
regionally inconsistent moisture patterns within the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) region …

Migration of the northern boundary of the East Asian summer monsoon over the last 21,000 years

B Wu, X Lang, D Jiang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Investigating the past evolution of the northern boundary of the East Asian summer monsoon
(EASM) is important in understanding the East Asian climate of the past, present, and future …

Holocene Multi‐Centennial Variations of the Asian Summer Monsoon Triggered by Solar Activity

W Sun, J Liu, B Wang, D Chen, L Wan… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar activity affects Asian summer monsoon (ASM) at various time scales. However, it
remains unknown if and how solar activity can influence ASM on the centennial time scale …