| Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for Late Cenozoic environmental change in Northern China | |
Ciner, Burcu1,2; Wang, Yang1,2; Deng, Tao3 ; Flynn, Lawrence4; Hou, Sukuan3; Wu, Wenyu3
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| 2015-12-15 | |
| 发表期刊 | PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
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| 卷号 | 440期号:440页码:750-762 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | Stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of 311 enamel samples from a diverse group of herbivorous mammals including Equidae, Rhinocerotidae, Bovidae, Rodentia and Ochotonidaewere were analyzed in order to reconstruct the Late Cenozoic history of vegetation and environmental change in the Yushe Basin in North China. The delta C-13 values of bulk and serial enamel samples from large mammals show a wide range of variation from -133 parts per thousand. to 1.4 parts per thousand, with a mean of -7.4 parts per thousand +/- 35 parts per thousand (n = 294). This indicates that large herbivorous mammals in the area had a variety of diets since 6.5 Ma, ranging from pure C-3 to mixed C-3-C-4 and pure C-4 diets. In contrast, the delta C-13 values of small mammals vary from -11.9 parts per thousand to -7.6 parts per thousand, with a mean of -9.7 +/- 1.1 parts per thousand (n = 17), indicating that rodents and ochotonids were feeding mostly on C-3 plants. Variations in delta C-13 values within and between species reflect the variations in the habitat and the vegetation consumed by the animals. In general, horses had higher amounts of C-4 grasses in their diets than other contemporary taxa such as bovids, rhinos, rodents and deer, suggesting that horses exploited more open habitats such as grasslands while deer, rhinos and rodents may have preferred more C-3 vegetation, which is more indicative of forested environments. The carbon isotope data show that C-4 grasses have been an important component of horses' diets and of local ecosystems since similar to 6.5 Ma, confirming that the "late Miocene C-4 expansion" occurred in North China as it did in Africa, Indian subcontinent and the Americas. This supports a global factor as a main driver of the late Miocene C-4 expansion. The combined carbon and oxygen isotope data reveal major shifts in climate to drier and/or warmer conditions after similar to 5.8, similar to 4.1, similar to 3.3, and similar to 2.5 Ma, and significant shifts to relatively wetter and/or cooler conditions after similar to 6.4, similar to 5, 3.5 Ma. The shifts to drier and/or warmer climate after similar to 5.8 Ma and similar to 2.5 Ma coincide with two major fauna turnover events. Intra-tooth delta C-13 and delta O-18 values are negatively correlated within individual modem teeth and some fossil teeth, displaying the characteristic pattern of the summer monsoon regime and confirming a strong monsoon influence in the area since at least the early Pliocene. The data also suggest that the C-4 abundance in the area has fluctuated over the past 6.5 Ma in response to changes in climate, with more C-4 grasses during warmer and/or drier periods and a reduced C-4 component at cooler and/or wetter times. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Carbon Isotopes Oxygen Isotopes Tooth Enamel Yushe Basin Paleodiet Paleoenvironment |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| 关键词[WOS] | PALEO-ELEVATION IMPLICATIONS ; HERBIVORE TOOTH ENAMEL ; EAST-ASIAN MONSOON ; RED CLAY FORMATION ; LOESS PLATEAU ; TIBETAN PLATEAU ; LATE MIOCENE ; FOSSIL MAMMALS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ANCIENT DIETS |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology ; Paleontology |
| WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Paleontology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000366539700058 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/6710 |
| 专题 | 古哺乳动物研究室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Florida State Univ, Dept Earth Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA 2.Natl High Magnet Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Harvard Univ, Dept Human Evolutionary Biol, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ciner, Burcu,Wang, Yang,Deng, Tao,et al. Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for Late Cenozoic environmental change in Northern China[J]. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,2015,440(440):750-762. |
| APA | Ciner, Burcu,Wang, Yang,Deng, Tao,Flynn, Lawrence,Hou, Sukuan,&Wu, Wenyu.(2015).Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for Late Cenozoic environmental change in Northern China.PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY,440(440),750-762. |
| MLA | Ciner, Burcu,et al."Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for Late Cenozoic environmental change in Northern China".PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 440.440(2015):750-762. |
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