Ian Boomer

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize palaeoclimate records from the mid-latitude arid Asian region dominated today by the Westerlies ("arid central Asia" (ACA)) to evaluate spatial and temporal patterns of moisture changes during the Holocene.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate spatial and temporal patterns of effective moisture variations documented by different proxies from 17 records in arid central Asia (ACA), and synthesize a decadal-resolution moisture curve for ACA over the past millennium, using 5 of the 17 records selected on the basis of reliable chronologies and robust proxies.

TL;DR: Ostracoda (microscopic, aquatic Crustacea) from brackish waters have a great potential for ecological monitoring and palaeoenvironmental analyses in highly variable environments as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Ostracod assemblages have become established indicators of ecosystem health, biodiversity and environmental change over the last 500 million years of earth history and have been employed on a range of temporal and spatial scales to reconstruct past environments, from worldwide, geological-scale global events in the deep-sea through to smaller-scale studies of lakes and their archives of local environmental change as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A review of the hydrological, palaeontological and sedimentological evidence for the evolution of the Aral Sea based largely on Russian literature is presented in this article, where the authors present a late Quaternary history of this important water body.