Environmental conditions do not predict diversification rates in the Bantu languages [PDF]
Heliyon, 2019 The global distribution of language diversity mirrors that of several variables related to ecosystem productivity. It has been argued that this is driven by the size of social networks, which tend to be larger in harsher climates to ensure food security,
Robert Beyer +3 more
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On-site plant-wax biomarker analysis for assessing soil-organic-microbial degradation in archaeological contexts: A case study from Southern India [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Stable carbon isotope (δ13C) analysis of soil organic matter (SOM) from archaeological contexts is widely employed as a proxy for palaeovegetation and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.
Gopesh Jha +10 more
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Siwalik plant megafossil diversity in the Eastern Himalayas: A review [PDF]
Plant Diversity, 2023 The Eastern Himalayas are renowned for their high plant diversity. To understand how this modern botanical richness formed, it is critical to investigate past plant biodiversity preserved as fossils throughout the eastern Himalayan Siwalik succession ...
Mahasin Ali Khan +6 more
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Late Eocene to middle Miocene (33 to 13 million years ago) vegetation and climate development on the North American Atlantic Coastal Plain (IODP Expedition 313, Site M0027) [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2014 We investigated the palynology of sediment cores from Site M0027 of IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program) Expedition 313 on the New Jersey shallow shelf to examine vegetation and climate dynamics on the east coast of North America between 33 and 13 ...
U. Kotthoff +5 more
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Response of spatial vegetation distribution in China to climate changes since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Analyzing how climate change affects vegetation distribution is one of the central issues of global change ecology as this has important implications for the carbon budget of terrestrial vegetation.
Siyang Wang +5 more
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Palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate of tertiary sediments from Hongsa Coalfield, Xayabouly province, Lao PDR – Implication from palynofloras [PDF]
Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2021 Palynological contents of organic-rich Tertiary sediments of the Hongsa coalfield, Xayabouly Province, north-western Lao PDR, were investigated. Palynomorphs that were used to reconstruct the palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate, were extracted from a ...
Thunyapat Sattraburut +2 more
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Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi, 2022 The most important data in determining palaeovegetation changes and palaeoland use characteristics are fossil pollen records and anthropogenic indicators included in these records.
Aziz Ören
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Acta Palaeobotanica, 2020 Based on macroremains, we describe three fossil plant assemblages from the Miocene of the Messara Basin (southern Crete) and the adjacent Gavdos Island.
Giannis Zidianakis +3 more
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Coastal dunes of Urup Island (Kuril Islands, North-Western Pacific): palaeoclimatic and environmental archive [PDF]
Геосистемы переходных зон, 2022 The Late Holocene phases of aeolian processes have been reconstructed on the basis of dune fields construction. The palaeoenvironmental studies were targeted to following problems: 1) to determine the periods of higher and lower activity of aeolian ...
Nadezhda G. Razjigaeva +3 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 The natural marshland and forest landscapes in the Lower Yangtze region have undergone a long history of human-induced destruction; however, little is known about the beginning and process of this destruction.
Zeyu Deng +9 more
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