Saswati Sarkar

TL;DR: The authors presented the first high resolution, well-dated, multiproxy reconstruction of Holocene palaeoclimate from a 10 m long sediment core raised from the Lonar Lake in central India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reconstruct centennial-scale hydrological variability during the Holocene associated to changes in the intensity of the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) based on a record of lipid biomarker abundances and compound-specific stable isotopic composition of a 10m long sediment core from saline-alkaline Lonar Lake, situated in the core ‘monsoon zone’ of central India.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the distribution of lipid biomarkers in a modern ecosystem and compared it with the sedimentary record, and found that substantial heterogeneity existed within the lake, but leaf wax n-alkanes in a core from the center of the lake represented an integral of catchment conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of the analysis reveal strong differences in pollen assemblages and pollen concentrations between and within the studied trapping media, including tropical dry deciduous forest vegetation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that neither anthropogenic impact nor fire regime shifts, but monsoon weakening during the past 6.0 kyr-cal. BP, drove the expansion of savanna at the expense of forests in peninsular India.