Publisher Correction: Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
Hanzhi Zhang +3 more
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Latitudinal divergence in runoff responses to global forestation due to forest-atmosphere feedbacks [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsForestation is a pivotal nature-based solution for mitigating global warming, yet its unintended hydrological outcomes and associated geospatial patterns remain understudied.
Fei Kan +8 more
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Lexical data for the historical comparison of Rgyalrongic languages [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Open Research Europe, 2023 As one of the most morphologically conservative branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family, most of the Rgyalrongic languages are still understudied and poorly understood, not to mention their vulnerable or endangered status.
Yunfan Lai, Johann-Mattis List
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Historical deforestation drives strong rainfall decline across the southern Amazon basin [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe Amazon forest has recently experienced substantial human-induced loss of forest cover. However, the extent to which such historical deforestation has altered regional observed precipitation through inter-regional atmospheric moisture transport ...
Jiangpeng Cui +4 more
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THE INTENSIVE CONTROVERSY ON CHINESE HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY: REFUTATION OF THE LIQUID MEDIAL FOR DIVISION-2 IN OLD CHINESE [PDF]
Trames, 2021 The present paper reports the intensive controversy on Chinese historical phonology that broke out in 2002. After sorting through over 150 Chinese papers on the intensive controversy by the Sino-linguistsâ side and the descriptivistsâ side, the ...
Jingyi Gao
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Emerging Negative Warming Impacts on Tibetan Crop Yield
Engineering, 2022 Preserving Tibet’s unique history and cultural heritage relies on the sustainability of the Tibetan croplands, which are characterized by highland barley, the only cereal crop cultivated over 4000 m above sea level.
Tsechoe Dorji +7 more
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Regional and tele-connected impacts of the Tibetan Plateau surface darkening
Nature Communications, 2023 Impacts of Tibetan Plateau darkening remain unclear. Here authors show that darkening under the RCP8.5 scenario will increase South Asian monsoon precipitation and the “South Flood-North Drought” pattern over East Asia, while lead to local glacier loss.
Shuchang Tang +12 more
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Ancient Connections of Sinitic
Languages, 2023 Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined.
David Bradley
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Genetic structure of Qiangic populations residing in the western Sichuan corridor. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The Qiangic languages in western Sichuan (WSC) are believed to be the oldest branch of the Sino-Tibetan linguistic family, and therefore, all Sino-Tibetan populations might have originated in WSC.
Chuan-Chao Wang +7 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Archeologically attested human occupation on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) can be traced back to 160 thousand years ago (kya) via the archaic Xiahe people and 30∼40 kya via the Nwya Devu anatomically modern human.
Guanglin He +18 more
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