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| Strengthening of the East Asian summer monsoon revealed by a shift in seasonal patterns in diet and climate after 2-3 Ma in northwest China | |
| Biasatti, Dana; Wang, Yang; Deng, Tao(邓涛); ywang@magnet.fsu.edu | |
| 2010 | |
| 发表期刊 | PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL
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| ISSN | 0031-0182 |
| 卷号 | 297期号:1页码:12—25 |
| 摘要 | To examine climate variability in northwest China in the late Cenozoic and to test hypotheses regarding the development of C(4) ecosystems and the dynamics of the Asian monsoons, the carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions of 32 bulk and 368 serial tooth enamel samples from herbivores in the Linxia Basin (Gansu Province), ranging in age from 25 Ma to the present, were determined. The results corroborate and improve the record previously obtained from the area, showing that all mammals in the Linxia Basin lived in habitats consisting primarily of C(3) vegetation prior to 2-3 Ma and that C(4) grasses did not become a significant component of local ecosystems until the Quaternary. The data also show that shifts in climate to drier and/or warmer conditions after about 14, 9.5, 7, and 2.5 Ma, as indicated by positive delta(18)O excursions in the bulk enamel-delta(18)O record, were accompanied by increased seasonality; whereas negative delta(18)O shifts in the bulk data after about 11, 6, and 1.2 Ma, which indicate shifts to wetter and/or cooler climate, were associated with decreases in seasonality. Intra-tooth delta(13)C and delta(18)O profiles reveal significant changes in the seasonal patterns of diet and climate after similar to 2-3 Ma. Prior to similar to 2-3 Ma, there was little or no seasonal variation in herbivores diets and all herbivores fed on C(3) vegetation year around. After that time, the data show a significant seasonal variation in the diets of horses and bovids, ranging from a pure C(3) to a mixed C(3)/C(4) diet (with C(4) plants accounting for up to similar to 60% of the diet). An inverse relationship (or negative correlation) between delta(13)C and delta(18)O values within individual teeth - a pattern characteristic of the summer monsoon regime - is observed in younger (<2-3 Ma) horses and bovids but not in older fossils. These changes in intra-tooth isotopic patterns provide strong evidence for an enhanced monsoon climate since about 2-3 Ma. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Oxygen-isotope Compositions Tibetan Plateau Stable-isotopes Carbon Isotopes Fossil Mammals Environmental-change Bone Phosphate Late Miocene Enamel Phosphate Atmospheric Co2 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4519 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 通讯作者 | ywang@magnet.fsu.edu |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Biasatti, Dana,Wang, Yang,Deng, Tao,et al. Strengthening of the East Asian summer monsoon revealed by a shift in seasonal patterns in diet and climate after 2-3 Ma in northwest China[J]. PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL,2010,297(1):12—25. |
| APA | Biasatti, Dana,Wang, Yang,Deng, Tao,&ywang@magnet.fsu.edu.(2010).Strengthening of the East Asian summer monsoon revealed by a shift in seasonal patterns in diet and climate after 2-3 Ma in northwest China.PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL,297(1),12—25. |
| MLA | Biasatti, Dana,et al."Strengthening of the East Asian summer monsoon revealed by a shift in seasonal patterns in diet and climate after 2-3 Ma in northwest China".PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 297.1(2010):12—25. |
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