Xiangdong Yang

TL;DR: The results suggest that if environmental regimes are sufficiently affected by large external impacts that flickering is induced, then early warning signals of transitions in modern social–ecological systems may be stronger, and hence easier to identify, than previously thought.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the distribution of phytolith assemblages in China from surface soil samples at 243 sites along significant ecological and climatic gradients to develop transfer functions for quantitative reconstruction of palaeoenvironment.

TL;DR: In this paper, a decadal-resolution record of total organic carbon (TOC) and grainsize retrieved from a composite piston core from Kusai Lake, NW China, provides solid evidence for decadal to centennial-scale Asian monsoon variability for the Northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the last 3770-yr.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the distribution of modern pollen assemblages in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China, based on surface soil samples collected at 1202 sites along an altitudinal gradient of 10 -5500 m asl, where mean annual precipitation (MAP) ranges from 12 to 1840 mm and mean annual temperature (MAT) from -7 to 21.5 degrees C.

TL;DR: In this article, a diatom-based inference model was developed to predict the onset and development of eutrophication at any site in the Yangtze floodplain in China.