Carbon
; Expansion
; Vegetation
; Black carbon
; Central Asia
; Japan Sea
; Pliocene
; westerlies
; Plant expansion
; aridity
; black carbon
; carbon isotope
; Miocene
; Pliocene
; seasonality
; vegetation type
; westerly
; Central Asia
; Pacific Ocean
; Sea of Japan
Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Laboratoire GEOsciences Paris-Sud (GEOPS), UMR 8148, CNRS-Université de Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Bâtiment 504, Orsay Cedex, 91405, France; Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan; Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, First Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Qingdao, 266061, China; Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, China; Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, Qingdao, 266071, China
Recommended Citation:
Shen X.,Wan S.,Colin C.,et al. Increased seasonality and aridity drove the C4 plant expansion in Central Asia since the Miocene–Pliocene boundary[J]. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,2018-01-01,502