supported by the Global Change Research Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2010CB950200);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40930103)
Climate in Eastern Asia is composed of monsoon climate in the east,arid and semi-arid climate in the north and west,and the cold and dry climate of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in the southwest.The underlying causes for th...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB950200)
A continuous record of surface temperature for the past 2650 years was obtained in an earlier study from a Beijing stalagmite based on sedimentary layer counting and thickness measurements.Singular spectrum analysis,m...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB950200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41001062);partly by a Special Fund of State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology (LQ0701)
Neolithic agricultural development and environmental effects in the Longdong area were reconstructed using a synthetic approach,investigating pollen,charcoal,and seed remains for two cultural layer sections and five f...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2010CB950200);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-117);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40730104)
Carbon isotopes of pedogenic carbonate are often used to study paleoenvironments, but the existence of detrital carbonate changes the carbon isotopic composition. To develop an experimental method to determine existen...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40672114and40872112);the National Basic Research Program of China(2010CB950200)
Diatom oxygen isotopes have been widely applied in quantitative reconstruction of the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment,but have rarely been reported in China.In the present study,Lake Sihailongwan in Northeast China ...