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National Ranking
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Overview

Linda K. Ayliffe is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences with focused contributions in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Geophysics.

Their work addresses topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, and earthquake and tectonic studies.

Among the recent published papers, one notable article is titled Antiphase response of the Indonesian-Australian monsoon to millennial-scale events of the last glacial period, published in 2022 in Scientific Reports. This paper has attracted scholarly attention and has been cited multiple times.

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Nick Scroxton
  • Michael K. Gagan
  • Wahyoe S. Hantoro
  • John Hellström
  • Hai Cheng

Linda K. Ayliffe's publication record is represented in venues such as:

  • Scientific Reports

Their contributions have involved detailed investigations of monsoon patterns and geological processes that relate to climate variability and tectonic activity. This multidisciplinary approach integrates atmospheric science with earth surface dynamics and geophysical methods.

Best Publications

  • Temperature and Surface-Ocean Water Balance of the Mid-Holocene Tropical Western Pacific

    M K Gagan;L K Ayliffe;L K Ayliffe;D Hopley;D Hopley;J A Cali;J A Cali

  • Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals

    Benjamin H. Passey;Todd F. Robinson;Linda K. Ayliffe;Thure E. Cerling

  • New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna: Continent-Wide Extinction About 46,000 Years Ago

    Richard G. Roberts;Timothy F. Flannery;Linda K. Ayliffe;Hiroyuki Yoshida

  • New views of tropical paleoclimates from corals

    M.K. Gagan;L.K. Ayliffe;J.W. Beck;J.E. Cole

  • Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna

    Gifford H. Miller;John W. Magee;Beverly J. Johnson;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago

    Chris S. M. Turney;Michael I. Bird;L. Keith Fifield;Richard G. Roberts

  • Increasing Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise

    Michael L Griffiths;Russell N Drysdale;Michael Gagan;Jian-xin Zhao

  • Radiocarbon dating of old charcoal using a wet oxidation, stepped-combustion procedure

    Michael I Bird;L K Ayliffe;L K Fifield;Christian S M Turney

  • Oxygen isotope composition of the bone phosphate of Australian kangaroos: Potential as a palaeoenvironmental recorder

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Allan R. Chivas

  • Turnover of carbon isotopes in tail hair and breath CO2 of horses fed an isotopically varied diet.

    L. K. Ayliffe;T. E. Cerling;T. Robinson;A. G. West

  • Sulphur isotopes in palaeodietary studies: a review and results from a controlled feeding experiment

    M. P. Richards;B. T. Fuller;M. Sponheimer;T. Robinson

  • Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years: a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group

    Jessica M. Reeves;Helen C. Bostock;Linda K. Ayliffe;Timothy T. Barrows

  • The preservation of glacial-interglacial climatic signatures in the oxygen isotopes of elephant skeletal phosphate

    L.K. Ayliffe;L.K. Ayliffe;A.M. Lister;A.R. Chivas

  • The retention of primary oxygen isotope compositions of fossil elephant skeletal phosphate

    L.K Ayliffe;A.R Chivas;M.G Leakey

  • 500 ka precipitation record from southeastern Australia: Evidence for interglacial relative aridity

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Pyramo C. Marianelli;Kevin C. Moriarty;Rod T. Wells

  • Strengthened East Asian summer monsoons during a period of high-latitude warmth? Isotopic evidence from Mio-Pliocene fossil mammals and soil carbonates from northern China

    Benjamin H. Passey;Linda K. Ayliffe;Linda K. Ayliffe;Anu Kaakinen;Zhaoqun Zhang

  • Determining biological tissue turnover using stable isotopes: the reaction progress variable.

    Thure E. Cerling;Linda K. Ayliffe;M. Denise Dearing;James R. Ehleringer

  • Rapid interhemispheric climate links via the Australasian monsoon during the last deglaciation

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Michael K. Gagan;Jian Xin Zhao;Russell N. Drysdale;Russell N. Drysdale

  • Evidence for Holocene changes in Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall from stalagmite trace element and stable isotope ratios

    Michael L. Griffiths;Russell N. Drysdale;Michael K. Gagan;Silvia Frisia

  • An experimental study of nitrogen flux in llamas: is 14N preferentially excreted?

    M Sponheimer;M Sponheimer;M Sponheimer;T.F Robinson;B.L Roeder;B.H Passey

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University
John Hellstrom
John Hellstrom University of Melbourne
Russell N. Drysdale
Russell N. Drysdale University of Melbourne
Matt Sponheimer
Matt Sponheimer University of Colorado Boulder
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia
James R. Ehleringer
James R. Ehleringer University of Utah
Benjamin H. Passey
Benjamin H. Passey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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