Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene transition (EOT) was a climate shift from a largely ice-free
greenhouse world to an icehouse climate, involving the first major glaciation of Antarctica …

The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central
Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It …

The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Falling atmospheric CO2 levels led to cooling through the Eocene and the expansion of
Antarctic ice sheets close to their modern size near the beginning of the Oligocene, a period …

Rapid global cooling at the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT),~ 33.9–33.5 Ma, is widely
considered to mark the onset of the modern icehouse world. A large and rapid drop in …

Abstract The Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT) at∼ 34 Ma marked a significant global
cooling on Earth when the ice cover in the Antarctic was formed. How the regional …

Links between tectonics and regional climate have been extensively studied in Asia.
However, despite decades of research, the relative roles of tectonics and global climate in …

Root nodule endosymbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria provides plants with unlimited
access to fixed nitrogen, but at a significant energetic cost. Nodulation is generally …