Orbital forcing of Plio-Pleistocene climate variation in a Qaidam Basin lake based on paleomagnetic and evaporite mineralogic analysis
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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.09.022
Abstract: Abstract Inland Asian aridification is threatening the global ecological system under continued global warming, requiring a full understanding of its forcing mechanisms. Past geological studies in this region focus mainly on initiation timing and million-year… read more here.
Keywords: aridification; evaporite mineralogic; qaidam basin; paleomagnetic evaporite ... See more keywords
Ecologic shift and aridification in the northern Tibetan Plateau revealed by leaf wax n-alkane δ2H and δ13C records
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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.005
Abstract: Abstract Two competing factors, the global cooling and the uplift of Tibetan Plateau, have been proposed to drive the central Asian aridification, but their relative role has seldom been discriminated in paleoclimate and paleoenvironment records.… read more here.
Keywords: aridification; leaf wax; plateau; northern tibetan ... See more keywords
Keeping global warming within 1.5 °C constrains emergence of aridification
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DOI: 10.1038/s41558-017-0034-4
Abstract: Aridity—the ratio of atmospheric water supply (precipitation; P) to demand (potential evapotranspiration; PET)—is projected to decrease (that is, areas will become drier) as a consequence of anthropogenic climate change, exacerbating land degradation and desertification1–6. However, the… read more here.
Keywords: warming within; climate; aridification; keeping global ... See more keywords
Indo-Pacific Walker circulation drove Pleistocene African aridification.
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03896-3
Abstract: Today, the eastern African hydroclimate is tightly linked to fluctuations in the zonal atmospheric Walker circulation1,2. A growing body of evidence indicates that this circulation shaped hydroclimatic conditions in the Indian Ocean region also on… read more here.
Keywords: pacific walker; walker circulation; aridification; walker ... See more keywords
A tale of two forests: ongoing aridification drives population decline and genetic diversity loss at continental scale in Afro-Macaronesian evergreen-forest archipelago endemics
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DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy107
Abstract: Background and Aims Various studies and conservationist reports have warned about the contraction of the last subtropical Afro-Macaronesian forests. These relict vegetation zones have been restricted to a few oceanic and continental islands around the… read more here.
Keywords: afro macaronesian; genetic diversity; population decline; aridification ... See more keywords
Droughting a megadrought: Ecological consequences of a decade of experimental drought atop aridification on the Colorado Plateau
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DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16681
Abstract: Global dryland vegetation communities will likely change as ongoing drought conditions shift regional climates towards a more arid future. Additional aridification of drylands can impact plant and ground cover, biogeochemical cycles, and plant–soil feedbacks, yet… read more here.
Keywords: long term; aridification; drought; plant ... See more keywords