KMS Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS
Fifty years of Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau | |
Tang, Lingyu(唐领余)1,2; Shen, Caiming1; Lu, Houyuan3,5,6; Li, Chuanhai4; Ma, Qingfeng7 | |
2021-09-29 | |
Source Publication | SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
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ISSN | 1674-7313 |
Pages | 19 |
Abstract | Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) was initiated in the 1960s to meet the needs of economic development in western China. Pollen analysis was conducted for the first time on a 200-m long core of Quaternary lacustrine sediments taken from the main body of the TP in order to study pollen assemblages as well as vegetation and climate changes of glacial (cold)/interglacial (warm) periods. Pollen analysis of alpine snow and ice began at the first scientific expedition to the TP in the 1970s. After the 1980s, a series of international collaborative programs were carried out under Sino-French, Sino-German, Sino-Australian, and Sino-American cooperation, marking the integration of Chinese Quaternary palynology society with the international community. New methods for Quaternary palynology were gradually promoted and applied, changing the vegetational and climatic interpretation of Quaternary palynology from qualitative to quantitative. Since the 1990s, many palynologists have carried out extensive Quaternary palynological studies on fossil pollen sites of more than 60 lakes/sections and alpine glaciers in the TP to discuss the spatiotemporal vegetation changes and climatic and environmental evolution of the TP since the Pleistocene. Over the past half-century, Quaternary palynology in the TP has contributed to the establishment of the Chinese Quaternary pollen database and the study of vegetation and climate evolution since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the TP. Currently available pollen records revealed the spatial and temporal distribution of vegetation in the TP since the LGM, exhibiting expansions and shrinkages of forest, meadow, grassland and desert in different periods such as the LGM, the last deglaciation, and Holocene optimum period. The paleomonsoon reflected by paleovegetation since the LGM has undergone the changes of weak-strengthening-strong-weakening but still active-shrinking, which is mainly affected by solar insolation. |
Keyword | Tibetan Plateau Lake core Ice core Quaternary palynology Paleovegetation Paleoclimate |
DOI | 10.1007/s11430-020-9809-5 |
Indexed By | SCI |
Language | 英语 |
WOS Keyword | HOLOCENE MONSOON CLIMATE ; BASIN WESTERN TIBET ; POLLEN RECORD ; ICE-CAP ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ; ALPINE VEGETATION ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; SUMMER MONSOON ; LAKE-SEDIMENTS ; ASIAN MONSOON |
Funding Project | Special Project for Basic Research of Yunnan Province-Key Project[202101AS070006] ; Yunnan Project for the Introduction of Advanced Talents[2013HA024] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41372191] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42067061] ; Key Project of Education Department of Hunan Province[20A400] |
WOS Research Area | Geology |
WOS Subject | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS ID | WOS:000702593200001 |
Funding Organization | Special Project for Basic Research of Yunnan Province-Key Project ; Yunnan Project for the Introduction of Advanced Talents ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Key Project of Education Department of Hunan Province |
Publisher | SCIENCE PRESS |
Document Type | 期刊论文 |
Identifier | http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/39895 |
Collection | 中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所 |
Corresponding Author | Shen, Caiming |
Affiliation | 1.Yunnan Normal Univ, Fac Geog, Yunnan Key Lab Plateau Geog Proc & Environm Charg, Kunming 650500, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Paleontol, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Cenozo Geol & Environm, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geog & Limnol, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Syst, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 6.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res, Key Lab Tibetan Environm Changes & Land Surface P, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
First Author Affilication | Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology,CAS |
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tang, Lingyu,Shen, Caiming,Lu, Houyuan,et al. Fifty years of Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau[J]. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,2021:19. |
APA | Tang, Lingyu,Shen, Caiming,Lu, Houyuan,Li, Chuanhai,&Ma, Qingfeng.(2021).Fifty years of Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau.SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,19. |
MLA | Tang, Lingyu,et al."Fifty years of Quaternary palynology in the Tibetan Plateau".SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES (2021):19. |
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