Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

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(2021) Dagomar Degroot et al.   NATURE

Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

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(2020) Danny McCarroll et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

No Age Trends in Oak Stable Isotopes

(2020) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Absence of Age‐Related Trends in Stable Oxygen Isotope Ratios From Oak Tree Rings

(2019) Josie E. Duffy et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Centennial- to decadal-scale monsoon precipitation variations in the upper Hanjiang River region, China over the past 6650 years

(2018) Liangcheng Tan et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A new find of macrofossils of Picea crassifolia Kom. in early–middle Holocene sediments of the Qinghai Lake basin and its paleoenvironmental significance

(2018) Ruijie Lu et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Quantification of drought during the collapse of the classic Maya civilization

(2018) Nicholas P. Evans et al.   SCIENCE

The East Asian Monsoon since the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence from geological records in northern China

(2018) Shiling Yang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/ Epoch (Quaternary System/Period): two new Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) and three new stages/ subseries

(2018) Mike Walker et al.   EPISODES

Scale-dependent climatic drivers of human epidemics in ancient China

(2017) Huidong Tian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Environmental and technological effects on ancient social evolution at different spatial scales

(2017) GuangHui Dong et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Negligible local-factor influences on tree ring cellulose δ18O of Qilian juniper in the Animaqing Mountains of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2017) Chenxi Xu et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of archaeological sites in China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: An overview

(2016) Dominic Hosner et al.   HOLOCENE

The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations

(2016) Hai Cheng et al.   NATURE

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

(2016) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Boreal spring precipitation variability in the cold arid western Himalaya during the last millennium, regional linkages, and socio-economic implications

(2016) Akhilesh K. Yadava et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dietary shift after 3600 cal yr BP and its influencing factors in northwestern China: Evidence from stable isotopes

(2016) Minmin Ma et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change

(2016) Elena Xoplaki et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Emergence of ancient cities in relation to geopolitical circumstances and climate change during late Holocene in northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

(2016) Guanghui Dong et al.   Frontiers of Earth Science

Early evidence for the use of wheat and barley as staple crops on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Jade A. d’Alpoim Guedes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Warming-induced northwestward migration of the East Asian monsoon rain belt from the Last Glacial Maximum to the mid-Holocene

(2015) Shiling 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

How climate change impacted the collapse of the Ming dynasty

(2014) Jingyun Zheng et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Distribution and vegetation reconstruction of the deserts of northern China during the mid-Holocene

(2014) Qin Li et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia

(2014) N. Pederson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) B. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

(2014) F. H. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying uncertainty in isotope dendroclimatology

(2013) NJ Loader et al.   HOLOCENE

The spatiotemporal pattern of the Majiayao cultural evolution and its relation to climate change and variety of subsistence strategy during late Neolithic period in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces, northwest China

(2013) Guanghui Dong et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon

(2013) Zhengyu Liu et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Mapping of the spatial and temporal distribution of archaeological sites of northern China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age

(2012) Mayke Wagner et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Methods to merge overlapping tree-ring isotope series to generate multi-centennial chronologies

(2011) Sarah Hangartner et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Mid-Holocene climate change and its effect on prehistoric cultural evolution in eastern Qinghai Province, China

(2011) Guanghui Dong et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Holocene vegetation and climate histories in the eastern Tibetan Plateau: controls by insolation-driven temperature or monsoon-derived precipitation changes?

(2011) Yan Zhao et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

(2011) U. Buntgen et al.   SCIENCE

Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia

(2010) B. M. Buckley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Periodic climate cooling enhanced natural disasters and wars in China during AD 10-1900

(2010) Z. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climatic implications of a 3585-year tree-ring width chronology from the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2010) X. Shao et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium

(2010) E. R. Cook et al.   SCIENCE

Easter Island: climate change might have contributed to past cultural and societal changes

(2009) NC Stenseth et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH