caa a22 4500 467917779 CHVBK 20180406152907.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-005-9039-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-005-9039-5 The Reconstruction of Paleovegetation and Paleoclimate in the Late Pliocene of West Yunnan, China [Elektronische Daten] [Xiang-Yu Kou, David Ferguson, Jing-Xian Xu, Yu-Fei Wang, Cheng-Sen Li] The Eryuan palynoflora from the Late Pliocene of western Yunnan, China is described in this paper, and is compared with two contemporary palynofloras from Yangyi and Longling. The palynological data of the three locations are analyzed to reconstruct the climatic parameters of these areas at that time by using the Coexistence Approach. The Late Pliocene climatic parameters of Eryuan are estimated, i.e., the mean annual temperature ranged from 13.3 to 18.6∘C, the mean temperature of the warmest month from 24.6 to 27.5∘C, the mean temperature of the coldest month from 1.9 to 12.1∘C, the difference in temperatures of coldest and warmest month from 14.2 to 16.6∘C, the mean annual precipitation from 619.9 to 1484.3 mm, the mean maximum monthly precipitation from 143.8 to 245.6 mm, and the mean minimum monthly precipitation from 12.7 to 16.4 mm. Both paleovegetation and paleoclimate of the three localities are compared with the modern data at each location. The present study suggests a MAT decrease accompanied by a doubling of the MAP in the Longling area between the Late Pliocene and the present. This seems to be related to the uplift of Gaoligong Mountain in Longling which is now part of the eastern portion (Western Yunnan) of the Tibetan Plateau. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Kou Xiang-Yu Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, P.R. China aut Ferguson David Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Althanstraβe 14, A-1090, Vienna, Austria aut Xu Jing-Xian Beijing Museum of Natural History, 100050, Beijing, P.R. China aut Wang Yu-Fei Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, P.R. China aut Li Cheng-Sen Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, P.R. China aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3-4(2006-08-01), 431-448 0165-0009 77:3-4<431 2006 77 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-9039-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-9039-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kou Xiang-Yu Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, P.R. China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ferguson David Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Althanstraβe 14, A-1090, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Xu Jing-Xian Beijing Museum of Natural History, 100050, Beijing, P.R. China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Yu-Fei Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, P.R. China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li Cheng-Sen Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100093, Beijing, P.R. China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/3-4(2006-08-01), 431-448 0165-0009 77:3-4<431 2006 77 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer