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DOI	10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103649
	An equable subtropical climate throughout China in the Miocene based on palaeofloral evidence
	Wang Q.; Li Y.; Ferguson D.K.; Mo W.-B.; Yang N.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00128252
卷号	218
英文摘要	Many studies have suggested that the climate diversified in China during the Miocene, with the emergence of an arid region in north-western China, as the Asian Monsoon intensified with the rapid uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the late Miocene. However, this opinion is not upheld by all geoscientists. Here Miocene fossil plant assemblages from 75 broadly scattered sites across China were investigated with the Co-existence Approach (CA) to exhibit trends in temperature and precipitation in time and space. Modern distributions and recorded climate data from China regarding the nearest living relatives of the fossil plant taxa were employed to pin-point the climatic parameters in which a maximum number of taxa could coexist. Evolution and climatic trends are presented in maps of China from the early, middle to late Miocene. These maps illustrate that the ranges of the temperature and precipitation in the Miocene were similar to or just a little larger than those in the Eocene but much smaller than those of the present. The whole of China still had low latitudinal climate gradients and was characterized by a subtropical climate without any arid region. The changing contours of temperature and precipitation may be ascribed to the initial stage of the Asian Monsoon. There was no abrupt elevation of the Tibetan Plateau, nor had the Plateau attained its present altitude or orography in the Miocene. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Asian Monsoon Climate evolution Climate gradients Co-existence approach The Tibetan Plateau
英文关键词	fossil; Miocene; monsoon; paleobotany; paleoclimate; paleotemperature; precipitation (climatology); subtropical region; China; Qinghai-Xizang Plateau
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204160
作者单位	The Key Laboratory of Beam Technology of Ministry of Education, Beijing Radiation Center, 12 Xueyuannan Road, Beijing, 100875, China; School of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, South Liushu Street 1, Dalian, Liaoning 116081, China; University of Vienna, Department of Palaeontology, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna, A-1090, Austria; College of Life Sciences and Technology, Central South University of Forestry Science and Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410004, China; Laboratory of Key Technologies of Digital Urban-Rural Spatial Planning of Hunan Province, College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Hunan City University, Yiyang, Hunan 413000, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang Q.,Li Y.,Ferguson D.K.,et al. An equable subtropical climate throughout China in the Miocene based on palaeofloral evidence[J],2021,218.
APA	Wang Q.,Li Y.,Ferguson D.K.,Mo W.-B.,&Yang N..(2021).An equable subtropical climate throughout China in the Miocene based on palaeofloral evidence.Earth Science Reviews,218.
MLA	Wang Q.,et al."An equable subtropical climate throughout China in the Miocene based on palaeofloral evidence".Earth Science Reviews 218(2021).