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Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years

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  • Xianfeng Wang

    (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University
    Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University)

  • R. Lawrence Edwards

    (University of Minnesota)

  • Augusto S. Auler

    (Instituto do Carste, Belo Horizonte)

  • Hai Cheng

    (University of Minnesota
    Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University)

  • Xinggong Kong

    (School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University)

  • Yongjin Wang

    (School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University)

  • Francisco W. Cruz

    (Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo)

  • Jeffrey A. Dorale

    (University of Iowa)

  • Hong-Wei Chiang

    (Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University)

Abstract

Oxygen isotope records derived from stalagmites in the eastern Amazon reveal that rainfall was about half of today’s during the Last Glacial Maximum but half again as much during the mid-Holocene, broadly coinciding with global changes in temperature and carbon dioxide.

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  • Xianfeng Wang & R. Lawrence Edwards & Augusto S. Auler & Hai Cheng & Xinggong Kong & Yongjin Wang & Francisco W. Cruz & Jeffrey A. Dorale & Hong-Wei Chiang, 2017. "Hydroclimate changes across the Amazon lowlands over the past 45,000 years," Nature, Nature, vol. 541(7636), pages 204-207, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:541:y:2017:i:7636:d:10.1038_nature20787
    DOI: 10.1038/nature20787
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    1. A. O. Sawakuchi & E. D. Schultz & F. N. Pupim & D. J. Bertassoli & D. F. Souza & D. F. Cunha & C. E. Mazoca & M. P. Ferreira & C. H. Grohmann & I. D. Wahnfried & C. M. Chiessi & F. W. Cruz & R. P. Alm, 2022. "Rainfall and sea level drove the expansion of seasonally flooded habitats and associated bird populations across Amazonia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, December.

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