Critical transitions in Chinese dunes during the past 12,000 years

Holocene aeolian stratigraphic sequences in the eastern portion of the desert belt (sand seas and sandy lands) in northern China and their palaeoenvironmental implications

(2019) Xiaoping Yang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Analysis of late Quaternary dunefield development in Asia using the accumulation intensity model

(2019) David S.G. Thomas et al.   Aeolian Research

Recent greening (1981-2013) in the Mu Us dune field, north-central China, and its potential causes

(2018) Zhiwei Xu et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Role of the mid-Holocene environmental transition in the decline of late Neolithic cultures in the deserts of NE China

(2018) Licheng Guo et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Seesaw pattern in dust accumulation on the Chinese Loess Plateau forced by late glacial shifts in the East Asian monsoon

(2018) Zhiwei Xu et al.   GEOLOGY

Morphodynamics, boundary conditions and pattern evolution within a vegetated linear dunefield

(2017) M.W. Telfer et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Crescentic dune migration and stabilization: Implications for interpreting paleo-dune deposits as paleoenvironmental records

(2017) Zhiwei Xu et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

Northward extent of East Asian monsoon covaries with intensity on orbital and millennial timescales

(2017) Yonaton Goldsmith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Holocene eolian sand deposition linked to climatic variability, Northern Great Plains, Canada

(2016) Stephen A Wolfe et al.   HOLOCENE

The INQUA Dunes Atlas chronologic database

(2016) Nicholas Lancaster et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Periodic temporal oscillations in biocrust–vegetation dynamics on sand dunes

(2016) Hezi Yizhaq et al.   Aeolian Research

Human activity accelerating the rapid desertification of the Mu Us Sandy Lands, North China

(2016) Yunfa Miao et al.   Scientific Reports

Local Facilitation May Cause Tipping Points on a Landscape Level Preceded by Early-Warning Indicators

(2015) Chi Xu et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Climate-driven changes to dune activity during the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation in the Mu Us dune field, north-central China

(2015) Zhiwei Xu et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The time-transgressive termination of the African Humid Period

(2015) Timothy M. Shanahan et al.   Nature Geoscience

Groundwater sapping as the cause of irreversible desertification of Hunshandake Sandy Lands, Inner Mongolia, northern China

(2015) Xiaoping Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

(2015) Fahu Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

The effect of sand grain size on the development of cyanobacterial biocrusts

(2014) Offer Rozenstein et al.   Aeolian Research

Barrier island bistability induced by biophysical interactions

(2014) Orencio Durán Vinent et al.   Nature Climate Change

Chinese deserts and sand fields in Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene Optimum

(2013) HuaYu Lu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

A quantitative approach to understanding dated dune stratigraphies

(2013) R. M. Bailey et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Variation of East Asian monsoon precipitation during the past 21 k.y. and potential CO2 forcing

(2013) H. Lu et al.   GEOLOGY

Simulated climate–vegetation interaction in semi-arid regions affected by plant diversity

(2013) M. Claussen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Effects of interannual climate variability on tropical tree cover

(2013) Milena Holmgren et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate and carbon cycle changes from 1850 to 2100 in MPI-ESM simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5

(2013) Marco A. Giorgetta et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Predicting vegetation-stabilized dune field morphology

(2012) Thomas E. Barchyn et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Late Holocene dune mobilizations in the northwestern Negev dunefield, Israel: A response to combined anthropogenic activity and short-term intensified windiness

(2012) Joel Roskin et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

OSL chronology and possible forcing mechanisms of dune evolution in the Horqin dunefield in northern China since the Last Glacial Maximum

(2012) LinHai Yang et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Implications of climate variability for the detection of multiple equilibria and for rapid transitions in the atmosphere-vegetation system

(2011) S. Bathiany et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Response of surface processes to climatic change in the dunefields and Loess Plateau of North China during the late Quaternary

(2011) Huayu Lu et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Past dynamics of the East Asian monsoon: No inverse behaviour between the summer and winter monsoon during the Holocene

(2011) Stephan Steinke et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Responses of wind erosion to climate-induced vegetation changes on the Colorado Plateau

(2011) S. M. Munson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The East Asian winter monsoon over the last 15,000 years: its links to high-latitudes and tropical climate systems and complex correlation to the summer monsoon

(2011) Luo Wang et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Non-linear connections between dune activity and climate in the High Plains, Kansas and Oklahoma, USA

(2010) Corey M. Werner et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Total irradiation during any time interval of the year using elliptic integrals

(2010) André Berger et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dune mobility and aridity at the desert margin of northern China at a time of peak monsoon strength

(2009) J.A. Mason et al.   GEOLOGY

Sand dune dynamics and climate change: A modeling approach

(2009) H. Yizhaq et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Transient Simulation of Last Deglaciation with a New Mechanism for Bolling-Allerod Warming

(2009) Z. Liu et al.   SCIENCE

The influence of different environmental and climatic conditions on vegetated aeolian dune landscape development and response

(2008) Joanna M. Nield et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

(2008) T. M. Lenton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

(2008) S. Kro pelin et al.   SCIENCE