Late Miocene global cooling and the rise of modern ecosystems

Evolution of Mediterranean sea surface temperatures 3.5–1.5 Ma: Regional and hemispheric influences

(2015) Timothy D. Herbert et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Cooling Mediterranean Sea surface temperatures during the Late Miocene provide a climate context for evolutionary transitions in Africa and Eurasia

(2015) Alexandrina Tzanova et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tightly linked zonal and meridional sea surface temperature gradients over the past five million years

(2015) Alexey V. Fedorov et al.   Nature Geoscience

Aridification of the Sahara desert caused by Tethys Sea shrinkage during the Late Miocene

(2014) Zhongshi Zhang et al.   NATURE

A 12-Million-Year Temperature History of the Tropical Pacific Ocean

(2014) Y. G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Miocene to Pliocene changes in South African hydrology and vegetation in relation to the expansion of C4 plants

(2013) Lydie M. Dupont et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Late Miocene threshold response of marine algae to carbon dioxide limitation

(2013) Clara T. Bolton et al.   NATURE

Warm climates of the past--a lesson for the future?

(2013) D. J. Lunt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Seasonality of UK′37 temperature estimates as inferred from sediment trap data

(2013) Antoni Rosell-Melé et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The evolution of pCO2, ice volume and climate during the middle Miocene

(2012) Gavin L. Foster et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Changes in sea-surface conditions in the Equatorial Pacific during the middle Miocene–Pliocene as inferred from coccolith geochemistry

(2012) Gabrielle Rousselle et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma

(2012) M. Seton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Late Miocene decoupling of oceanic warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing

(2012) Jonathan P. LaRiviere et al.   NATURE

Paleoceanographic changes in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the last 10 Myr

(2012) Osamu Seki et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

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

Convergent Cenozoic CO2 history

(2011) David J. Beerling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Atmospheric CO2decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations

(2011) Gretta Bartoli et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Miocene to Pliocene development of surface and subsurface temperatures in the Benguela Current system

(2011) Florian Rommerskirchen et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages

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

Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records

(2010) Osamu Seki et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evidence for iceberg armadas from East Antarctica in the Southern Ocean during the late Miocene and early Pliocene

(2010) Trevor Williams et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A Tortonian (Late Miocene, 11.61–7.25Ma) global vegetation reconstruction

(2010) Matthew J. Pound et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Two new Mio-Pliocene Chadian hominids enlighten Charles Darwin's 1871 prediction

(2010) M. Brunet   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tropical Ocean Temperatures Over the Past 3.5 Million Years

(2010) T. D. Herbert et al.   SCIENCE

Earth system sensitivity inferred from Pliocene modelling and data

(2009) Daniel J. Lunt et al.   Nature Geoscience

High-amplitude variations in North Atlantic sea surface temperature during the early Pliocene warm period

(2009) Kira T. Lawrence et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

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

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

Greatly Expanded Tropical Warm Pool and Weakened Hadley Circulation in the Early Pliocene

(2009) C. M. Brierley et al.   SCIENCE

Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation

(2008) Robert M. DeConto et al.   NATURE

Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing

(2008) C. Badgley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mid-Miocene cooling and the extinction of tundra in continental Antarctica

(2008) A. R. Lewis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA