%0 Journal Article
%T Vegetation and environmental changes in western Chinese Loess Plateau since 13.0 ka BP<br>
%A SUN Aizhi
%A FENG Zhaodong
%A MA Yuzhen
%A <br>
%J 地理学报
%D 2010
%I 
%X Pollen records from the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed a detailed history of vegetation variation and associated climate changes during the last 13.0 ka BP. Before 12.1 ka BP, steppe or desert-steppe vegetation dominated landscape then was replaced by a coniferous forest under a generally wet climate (12.1–11.0 ka BP). The vegetation was deteriorated into steppe landscape and further into a desert-steppe landscape between 11.0 and 9.8 ka BP. After a brief episode of a cool and wet climate (9.8–9.6 ka BP), a relatively mild and dry condition prevailed during the early Holocene (9.6–7.6 ka BP). The most favourable climate of warm and humid period occurred during mid-Holocene (7.6–~4.0 ka BP) marked by forest-steppe landscape and vegetation alternatively changed between steppe and desert- steppe from ~4.0 to ~1.0 ka BP.
%K Chinese Loess Plateau
%K arid and semi-arid region
%K pollen assemblage
%K climate change<br>
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