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SUBMITTER: Barbolini N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7546705 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barbolini N N Woutersen A A Dupont-Nivet G G Silvestro D D Tardif D D Coster P M C PMC Meijer N N Chang C C Zhang H-X HX Licht A A Rydin C C Koutsodendris A A Han F F Rohrmann A A Liu X-J XJ Zhang Y Y Donnadieu Y Y Fluteau F F Ladant J-B JB Le Hir G G Hoorn C C
Science advances 20201009 41
The origins and development of the arid and highly seasonal steppe-desert biome in Central Asia, the largest of its kind in the world, remain largely unconstrained by existing records. It is unclear how Cenozoic climatic, geological, and biological forces, acting at diverse spatial and temporal scales, shaped Central Asian ecosystems through time. Our synthesis shows that the Central Asian steppe-desert has existed since at least Eocene times but experienced no less than two regime shifts, one a ...[more]