Monosoon versus uplift in southwestern China--Late Pliocene climate in Yuanmou Basin, Yunnan
作者：Yi-Feng Yao, Angela A. Bruch, Ye-Ming Cheng, Volker Mosbrugger, Yu-Fei Wang, Cheng-Sen Li*
影响因子：4.537
刊物名称：PLoS One
出版年份：2012
卷：7 期：5 页码：e37760
文章摘要：
Yuanmou Basin of Yunnan, SW China, is a famous locality with hominids, hominoids, mammals and plant fossils. Based on the published megaflora and palynoflora data from Yuanmou Basin, the climate of Late Pliocene is reconstructed using the Coexistence Approach. The results indicate a warm and humid subtropical climate with a mean annual temperature of ca. 16–170C and a mean annual precipitation of ca. 1500–1600 mm in the Late Pliocene rather than a dry, hot climate today, which may be due to the local tectonic change and gradual intensification of India monsoon. The comparison of Late Pliocene climate in Eryuan, Yangyi, Longling, and Yuanmou Basin of Yunnan Province suggests that the mean annual temperatures generally show a latitudinal gradient and fit well with their geographic position, while the mean annual precipitations seem to be related to the different geometries of the valleys under the same monsoon system.
