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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106444
	Climate change; vegetation history; and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review
	Chen F.; Zhang J.; Liu J.; Cao X.; Hou J.; Zhu L.; Xu X.; Liu X.; Wang M.; Wu D.; Huang L.; Zeng T.; Zhang S.; Huang W.; Zhang X.; Yang K.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	243
英文摘要	Numerous studies of changes in the climate, vegetation and landscape responses of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during the Holocene have been published in recent decades. However, several conflicting interpretations are evident within these studies and a comprehensive review of the topic is needed to reconcile them, and thus to provide an improved understanding of the history and forcing mechanisms of Holocene environmental changes within the region. Here we review the evidence for changes in climate (temperature, precipitation/moisture), vegetation and landscape attributes (glacier and eolian activity) on the TP during the Holocene. Our main conclusions are as follows. 1) The patterns of Holocene mean annual temperature change on the TP remain controversial; however, an early to middle Holocene summer temperature maximum is evident, which coincided with high summer insolation and a strengthening of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM). This suggests that the summer land-sea thermal gradient, impacted by the temperature of the TP, may be an important factor driving orbital-scale ISM changes. 2) Lake-level records indicate an optimum in moisture conditions on the southwestern (SW) TP in the early Holocene, while on the northeastern (NE) TP the optimum occurred in the middle to late Holocene. This out-of-phase or anti-phased relationship may be linked to the role of the ISM in dominating precipitation on the SW TP, while the westerlies and East Asian summer monsoon dominated the precipitation on the NE TP. 3) Most of the lake-sediment-based stable isotope records (δ18O and leaf wax δD) exhibit a pattern similar to that of stalagmite δ18O records from monsoonal Asia, reflecting the dominance of large-scale patterns of atmospheric circulation, rather than localized moisture changes reflected by lake level records. 4) A synthesis of pollen records reveals that the extent of forest was maximal in the mid-Holocene, while from the early Holocene onwards alpine steppe shrunk and alpine meadow and desert gradually expanded. 5) Evidence of glacier advance increased slightly during the early Holocene, decreased during the mid-Holocene, and then increased substantially after 3 ka BP. 6) The integrated ages of eolian sand and loess from the NE TP reveal that eolian activity intensified during the early and late Holocene. Site inter-comparisons reveal that regional climate change played a major role in modulating changes in vegetation and other landscape attributes. Overall, producing Holocene climate reconstructions for the entire TP remains a major challenge even though much progress has been made. Further improvements in terms of the spatial coverage of high-resolution paleoclimatic records with robust chronological control, and a deeper understanding of the specific climatic significance of several climatic proxies, will facilitate an improved understanding of how the monsoon and the westerlies interacted and their impacts on vegetation and landscape changes on the TP. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Asian summer monsoon; Geomorphology; Holocene; Paleoclimatology; Tibetan Plateau; Vegetation dynamics; Westerlies
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Atmospheric thermodynamics; Lakes; Moisture; Vegetation; Atmospheric circulation; East Asian summer monsoon; Environmental change; Indian summer monsoon; Landscape attributes; Mean annual temperatures; Paleoclimatic record; Regional climate changes; Climate change; atmospheric circulation; climate change; glacier advance; Holocene; lake level; land-sea interaction; landscape change; precipitation (climatology); seasonal variation; temperature gradient; vegetation history; westerly; China; Far East; Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151378
作者单位	Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaptation Group (ALPHA), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; College of Geography and Environmental Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730070, China; Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China; Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, BremerhavenD-27570, Germany; Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen F.,Zhang J.,Liu J.,et al. Climate change; vegetation history; and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review[J],2020,243.
APA	Chen F..,Zhang J..,Liu J..,Cao X..,Hou J..,...&Yang K..(2020).Climate change; vegetation history; and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review.Quaternary Science Reviews,243.
MLA	Chen F.,et al."Climate change; vegetation history; and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review".Quaternary Science Reviews 243(2020).