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5437
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6499
National Ranking
410

Best Publications

  • East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

    Fahu H. Chen;Qinghai H. Xu;Jianhui H. Chen;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Climate change, vegetation history, and landscape responses on the Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene: A comprehensive review

    Fahu Chen;Jifeng Zhang;Jianbao Liu;Xianyong Cao

  • Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Xianyong Cao;Xianyong Cao;Thomas Laepple;Anne Dallmeyer

  • Studies of modern pollen assemblages for pollen dispersal- deposition- preservation process understanding and for pollen-based reconstructions of past vegetation, climate, and human impact: A review based on case studies in China

    Qinghai Xu;Shengrui Zhang;Marie-jose Gaillard;Manyue Li

  • Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics in the Altai Mountains and Surrounding Areas

    Xiaozhong Huang;Wei Peng;Natalia Rudaya;Eric C. Grimm

  • Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia

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  • A modern pollen–climate dataset from China and Mongolia: Assessing its potential for climate reconstruction

    Xian-yong Cao;Xian-yong Cao;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Richard J. Telford;Jian Ni;Jian Ni

  • Towards quantification of Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China: A review in the light of pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions of regional plant cover

    Furong Li;Marie José Gaillard;Xianyong Cao;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • A late Quaternary pollen dataset from eastern continental Asia for vegetation and climate reconstructions: Set up and evaluation

    Xian-yong Cao;Xian-yong Cao;Xian-yong Cao;Jian Ni;Jian Ni;Jian Ni;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Yong-bo Wang;Yong-bo Wang;Yong-bo Wang

  • Vegetation succession and East Asian Summer Monsoon Changes since the last deglaciation inferred from high-resolution pollen record in Gonghai Lake, Shanxi Province, China:

    Qinghai Xu;Fahu Chen;Shengrui Zhang;Xianyong Cao

  • Biome distribution over the last 22,000 yr in China

    Jian Ni;Jian Ni;Jian Ni;Xianyong Cao;Xianyong Cao;Florian Jeltsch;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Pollen source areas of lakes with inflowing rivers: modern pollen influx data from Lake Baiyangdian, China

    Qinghai Xu;Qinghai Xu;Fang Tian;M. Jane Bunting;Yuecong Li

  • Impacts of the spatial extent of pollen-climate calibration-set on the absolute values, range and trends of reconstructed Holocene precipitation

    Xianyong Cao;Fang Tian;Richard J. Telford;Jian Ni

  • Pollen-based quantitative land-cover reconstruction for northern Asia covering the last 40 ka cal BP

    Xianyong Cao;Fang Tian;Furong Li;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Postglacial history of the Steppe Altai: Climate, fire and plant diversity

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  • Environmental magnetic studies of sediment cores from Gonghai Lake: implications for monsoon evolution in North China during the late glacial and Holocene

    Fahu Chen;Jianbao Liu;Qinghai Xu;Yuecong Li

  • Relative pollen productivities of typical steppe species in northern China and their potential in past vegetation reconstruction

    QingHai Xu;XianYong Cao;Fang Tian;ShengRui Zhang

  • Holocene climate change and human impacts implied from the pollen records in Anyang, central China

    Xianyong Cao;Qinghai Xu;Qinghai Xu;Zhichun Jing;Jigen Tang

  • Spatial and temporal distributions of major tree taxa in eastern continental Asia during the last 22,000 years

    Xianyong Cao;Xianyong Cao;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Jian Ni;Jian Ni;Yan Zhao

  • Quantitative woody cover reconstructions from eastern continental Asia of the last 22 kyr reveal strong regional peculiarities

    Fang Tian;Fang Tian;Xianyong Cao;Anne Dallmeyer;Jian Ni;Jian Ni

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