Cenozoic evolution of the steppe-desert biome in Central Asia

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

(2020) Miguel Berdugo et al.   SCIENCE

Qaidam Basin leaf fossils show northeastern Tibet was high, wet and cool in the early Oligocene

(2020) Bowen Song et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The role of the westerlies and orography in Asian hydroclimate since the late Oligocene

(2020) Xin Wang et al.   GEOLOGY

Why the ‘Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau’ is a myth

(2020) Robert A Spicer et al.   National Science Review

Synchronous cooling and decline in monsoonal rainfall in northeastern Tibet during the fall into the Oligocene icehouse

(2019) M. Page et al.   GEOLOGY

Tectonic evolution of the Pamir recorded in the western Tarim Basin (China): sedimentologic and magnetostratigraphic analyses of the Aertashi section

(2019) Tamsin Blayney et al.   TECTONICS

No high Tibetan Plateau until the Neogene

(2019) T. Su et al.   Science Advances

Biogeography of the xerophytic genus Anabasis L. (Chenopodiaceae)

(2019) Maximilian Lauterbach et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Central Asian moisture modulated by proto-Paratethys Sea incursions since the early Eocene

(2019) Niels Meijer et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mesozoic–Cenozoic geological evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen and working tectonic hypotheses

(2019) Paul Kapp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Mountain building, climate cooling and the richness of cold‐adapted plants in the Northern Hemisphere

(2019) Oskar Hagen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biotic interchange through lowlands of Tibetan Plateau suture zones during Paleogene

(2019) Jia Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Late Pliocene vegetation turnover on the NE Tibetan Plateau (Central Asia) triggered by early Northern Hemisphere glaciation

(2019) Andreas Koutsodendris et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Miocene climate change as a driving force for multiple origins of annual species in Astragalus (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae)

(2019) Nasim Azani et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework

(2019) Daniele Silvestro et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

OligoceneLimnobiophyllum(Araceae) from the central Tibetan Plateau and its evolutionary and palaeoenvironmental implications

(2019) Shook Ling Low et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Asian monsoons and aridification response to Paleogene sea retreat and Neogene westerly shielding indicated by seasonality in Paratethys oysters

(2018) Laurie Bougeois et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Mid-Miocene C 4 expansion on the Chinese Loess Plateau under an enhanced Asian summer monsoon

(2018) Jibao Dong et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Role of climate and herbivory on native and alien conifer seedling recruitment at and above the Fennoscandian tree line

(2018) Fidele Bognounou et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Neogene evolution of the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau based on sedimentary, paleoclimatic and tectonic evidence

(2018) Yadong Xu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Paleoelevations in the Jianchuan Basin of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau based on stable isotope and pollen grain analyses

(2018) Jing Wu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Reconstructing Greater India: Paleogeographic, kinematic, and geodynamic perspectives

(2018) Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

The evolution of hydroclimate in Asia over the Cenozoic: A stable-isotope perspective

(2018) Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evolutionary history of the angiosperm flora of China

(2018) Li-Min Lu et al.   NATURE

Global cooling and enhanced Eocene Asian mid-latitude interior aridity

(2018) J. X. Li et al.   Nature Communications

Paleogene evolution and demise of the proto‐Paratethys Sea in Central Asia (Tarim and Tajik basins): role of intensified tectonic activity at ~41 Ma

(2018) Mustafa Yücel Kaya et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Global warming and rainfall: Lessons from an analysis of Mid-Miocene climate data

(2018) Zhengchuang Hui et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

New U-Pb dates show a Paleogene origin for the modern Asian biodiversity hot spots

(2017) U. Linnemann et al.   GEOLOGY

Quantifying the rise of the Himalaya orogen and implications for the South Asian monsoon

(2017) Lin Ding et al.   GEOLOGY

Late Oligocene-early Miocene evolution of the Lunpola Basin, central Tibetan Plateau, evidences from successive lacustrine records

(2017) Pengfei Ma et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Vegetation and climatic changes during the Middle Miocene in the Wushan Basin, northeastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from a high-resolution palynological record

(2017) Zhengchuang Hui et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

(2017) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

What enhanced the aridity in Eocene Asian inland: Global cooling or early Tibetan Plateau uplift?

(2017) Xiangyu Li et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Expansion of the Tibetan Plateau during the Neogene

(2017) Weitao Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

(2017) Gavin L. Foster et al.   Nature Communications

Desert Dust and Health: A Central Asian Review and Steppe Case Study

(2017) Troy Sternberg et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Heterogeneity in global vegetation and terrestrial climate change during the late Eocene to early Oligocene transition

(2017) Matthew J. Pound et al.   Scientific Reports

Fossil climbing perch and associated plant megafossils indicate a warm and wet central Tibet during the late Oligocene

(2017) Feixiang Wu et al.   Scientific Reports

Two tropical conifers show strong growth and water-use efficiency responses to altered CO2concentration

(2016) James W. Dalling et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

(2016) Karsten Wesche et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

(2016)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

When can positive interactions cause alternative stable states in ecosystems?

(2016) Sonia Kéfi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Miocene high-elevation landscape of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Qiang Xu et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

The Neogene de-greening of Central Asia

(2016) Jeremy K. Caves et al.   GEOLOGY

Available data point to a 4-km-high Tibetan Plateau by 40 Ma, but 100 molecular-clock papers have linked supposed recent uplift to young node ages

(2016) Susanne S. Renner   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mg/Ca in fossil oyster shells as palaeotemperature proxy, an example from the Palaeogene of Central Asia

(2016) Laurie Bougeois et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Himalayan uplift shaped biomes in Miocene temperate Asia: evidence from leguminous Caragana

(2016) Ming-Li Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

The sedimentary record of the Issyk Kul basin, Kyrgyzstan: climatic and tectonic inferences

(2015) Euan A. Macaulay et al.   BASIN RESEARCH

Global semi-arid climate change over last 60 years

(2015) Jianping Huang et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Tectono-climatic implications of Eocene Paratethys regression in the Tajik basin of central Asia

(2015) Barbara Carrapa et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Role of the westerlies in Central Asia climate over the Cenozoic

(2015) Jeremy K. Caves et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Onset of aridification by 34 Ma across the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Central Asia

(2015) Jimin Sun et al.   GEOLOGY

Lithologic and rock magnetic evidence for the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum recorded in the sedimentary archive of the Xining Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Jinbo Zan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Evolution of Neogene Mammals in Eurasia: Environmental Forcing and Biotic Interactions

(2014) Mikael Fortelius et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Aridification in continental Asia after the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO)

(2014) Roderic E. Bosboom et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Conifer seed predation by terrestrial small mammals: A review of the patterns, implications, and limitations of top-down and bottom-up interactions

(2014) Nikhil Lobo   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Cenozoic record of aeolian sediment accumulation and aridification from Lanzhou, China, driven by Tibetan Plateau uplift and global climate

(2014) Yuebao Zhang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Asian monsoons in a late Eocene greenhouse world

(2014) A. Licht et al.   NATURE

The respective role of atmospheric carbon dioxide and orbital parameters on ice sheet evolution at the Eocene-Oligocene transition

(2014) Jean-Baptiste Ladant et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Conifer species adapt to low-rainfall climates by following one of two divergent pathways

(2014) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Miocene–Quaternary rapid stepwise uplift of the NE Tibetan Plateau and its effects on climatic and environmental changes

(2014) Jijun Li et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Outward-growth of the Tibetan Plateau during the Cenozoic: A review

(2014) Chengshan Wang et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Evolutionary history and underlying adaptation of alpine plants on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2014) Jian-Quan LIU et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Synchronous turnover of flora, fauna, and climate at the Eocene–Oligocene Boundary in Asia

(2014) Jimin Sun et al.   Scientific Reports

Evolutionary diversifications of plants on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jun Wen et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Projected change in extreme rainfall events in China by the end of the 21st century using CMIP5 models

(2013) HuoPo Chen   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Middle Miocene climate cooling linked to intensification of eastern equatorial Pacific upwelling

(2013) A. Holbourn et al.   GEOLOGY

Retrodeforming the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: Age of collision versus magnitude of continental subduction

(2013) Nadine McQuarrie et al.   GEOLOGY

Late early Oligocene East Asian summer monsoon in the NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from a palynological record from the Lanzhou Basin, China

(2013) Yunfa Miao et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Evolutionary History of Lagomorphs in Response to Global Environmental Change

(2013) Deyan Ge et al.   PLoS One

Transport of airborne Picea schrenkiana pollen on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountains (Xinjiang, China) and its implication for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

(2012) Yanfang Pan et al.   AEROBIOLOGIA

Climate change in China in the 21st century as simulated by a high resolution regional climate model

(2012) XueJie Gao et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

What controlled Mid–Late Miocene long-term aridification in Central Asia? — Global cooling or Tibetan Plateau uplift: A review

(2012) Yunfa Miao et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Pliocene–Pleistocene stepwise drying of Central Asia: Evidence from paleomagnetism and sporopollen record of the deep borehole SG-3 in the western Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Maotang Cai et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Link between global cooling and mammalian transformation across the Eocene–Oligocene boundary in the continental interior of Asia

(2012) Rui Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Elegance versus Speed: Examining the Competition between Conifer and Angiosperm Trees

(2012) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Expansion of open landscapes in Northern China during the Oligocene induced by dramatic climate changes: Paleoecological evidence

(2012) Helder Gomes Rodrigues et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China)

(2012) Carina Hoorn et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Evolution of C4 plants: a new hypothesis for an interaction of CO2 and water relations mediated by plant hydraulics

(2012) C. P. Osborne et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Map view restoration of Aegean-West Anatolian accretion and extension since the Eocene

(2012) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   TECTONICS

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Late Cenozoic central Asian drying inferred from a palynological record from the northern Tian Shan

(2011) Zihua Tang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ungulate herbivory of regenerating conifers in relation to foliar nutrition and terpenoid production

(2011) Owen T. Burney et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Thermochronologic evidence for plateau formation in central Tibet by 45 Ma

(2011) Alexander Rohrmann et al.   GEOLOGY

The age of the “Grande Coupure” mammal turnover: New constraints from the Eocene–Oligocene record of the Eastern Ebro Basin (NE Spain)

(2011) Elisenda Costa et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Role of Carbon Dioxide During the Onset of Antarctic Glaciation

(2011) M. Pagani et al.   SCIENCE

Restoration of Cenozoic deformation in Asia and the size of Greater India

(2011) Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen et al.   TECTONICS

Orographic Controls on Climate and Paleoclimate of Asia: Thermal and Mechanical Roles for the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) Peter Molnar et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Eocene–Oligocene transition in Central Asia and its effects on mammalian evolution

(2010) Brian P. Kraatz et al.   GEOLOGY

Palynological evidence for Neogene environmental change in the foreland basin of the southern Tianshan range, northwestern China

(2010) Zhenqing Zhang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Ecometrics: The traits that bind the past and present together

(2010) Jussi T. ERONEN et al.   Integrative Zoology

Miocene pollen record of KC-1 core in the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau and implications for evolution of the East Asian monsoon

(2010) Yunfa Miao et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Step-wise change of Asian interior climate preceding the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (EOT)

(2010) Hemmo A. Abels et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grasses

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

New evidence on the age of the Taklimakan Desert

(2009) Jimin Sun et al.   GEOLOGY

Responses of dune activity and desertification in China to global warming in the twenty-first century

(2009) Xunming Wang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Spatial and temporal characteristics of Neogene palynoflora in China and its implication for the spread of steppe vegetation

(2009) H. Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Significant mid-latitude aridity in the middle Miocene of East Asia

(2009) Liping Liu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Ocean overturning since the Late Cretaceous: Inferences from a new benthic foraminiferal isotope compilation

(2009) B. S. Cramer et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Strengthened East Asian summer monsoons during a period of high-latitude warmth? Isotopic evidence from Mio-Pliocene fossil mammals and soil carbonates from northern China

(2008) Benjamin H. Passey et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses

(2008) Erika J. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust

(2008) R. Dietmar Müller et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Tibetan uplift prior to the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition: Evidence from pollen analysis of the Xining Basin

(2008) G. Dupont-Nivet et al.   GEOLOGY

Palynological evidence for the Mid-Miocene Climatic Optimum recorded in Cenozoic sediments of the Tian Shan Range, northwestern China

(2008) Jimin Sun et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Stepwise transition from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse

(2008) Miriam E. Katz et al.   Nature Geoscience

Correlation of Himalayan exhumation rates and Asian monsoon intensity

(2008) Peter D. Clift et al.   Nature Geoscience