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Lake-centred sedentary lifestyle of early Tibetan Plateau Indigenous populations at high elevation 4,400 years ago

Ancient DNA, stable isotopes and other archaeological methods establish that humans were living at extremely high elevation on the Tibetan Plateau 4,400 years ago, maintaining sedentary lifestyles that combined fishing, hunting and crop exchange.

Xiaoyan Yang
Yu Gao
Fahu Chen
Research16 Sept 2024
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 8, P: 2297-2308
Asian dust-storm activity dominated by Chinese dynasty changes since 2000 BP

How the Asian monsoon, earth surface processes and human development interact is not well known. Here, a new record of dust storm intensity shows a relationship between the stability of dynasties and dust storm activity for the last ~2200 years, which argues for a strong human control of dust storms in East Asia over this time.

Fahu Chen
Shengqian Chen
Jianbao Liu
ResearchOpen Access20 Feb 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-7
Middle and Late Pleistocene Denisovan subsistence at Baishiya Karst Cave

Zooarchaeological and proteomic analyses of bones from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau identify a hominin rib specimen, and provide insight into the ways Denisovans interacted with their surrounding environment and made use of animal resources.

Huan Xia
Dongju Zhang
Frido Welker
ResearchOpen Access03 Jul 2024
Nature

Volume: 632, P: 108-113
Nitrogen and phosphorus trends in lake sediments of China may diverge

Nutrient levels in Chinese lakes have rapidly increased since 1950 but future trends in lacustrine nitrogen and phosphorus across China will differentiate, according to projections up to 2100.

Panpan Ji
Jianhui Chen
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access26 Mar 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-9
Aerosol-weakened summer monsoons decrease lake fertilization on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Historically, warm periods enhanced the Asian summer monsoon—increased rainfall brought additional nutrients to freshwater ecosystems and increased production. However, anthropogenic aerosols have weakened the monsoon and altered lake ecosystems.

Jianbao Liu
Kathleen M. Rühland
John P. Smol
Research27 Feb 2017
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 7, P: 190-194
Southeast Asian ecological dependency on Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennium

Reconstructions of Tibetan Plateau streamflow over the last millennia reveal close associations with dry season vegetation and major population shifts in Southeast Asia.

Feng Chen
Wenmin Man
Fahu Chen
Research13 Nov 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 16, P: 1151-1158
Non-trivial role of internal climate feedback on interglacial temperature evolution

Xu Zhang
Fahu Chen
Research01 Dec 2021
Nature

Volume: 600, P: E1-E3
Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China

The basic mechanisms behind the East Asian Summer Monsoon remain poorly understood. Using proxy-based reconstructions and simulations, here the authors show that changes in the orientation and position of the westerly jet stream resulted in regionally asynchronous Holocene precipitation maxima.

Ulrike Herzschuh
Xianyong Cao
Zhuo Zheng
ResearchOpen Access30 May 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-8
Unintended consequences of combating desertification in China

This paper shows that desertification combating practices decline incomes of farmers and herders, and China needs to adapt its ecological programmes to address the impacts of climate change and create positive synergies to combat desertification.

Xunming Wang
Quansheng Ge
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access28 Feb 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
Collaboration between artificial intelligence and Earth science communities for mutual benefit

Artificial intelligence is rapidly being integrated into Earth science, but how Earth science may benefit artificial intelligence has been overlooked. We call for mutual balancing between the two disciplines and improving cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Min Chen
Zhen Qian
Guonian Lü
Comments & Opinion09 Oct 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 949-952
Prehistoric population expansion in Central Asia promoted by the Altai Holocene Climatic Optimum

The impact of climate change on Holocene human activity in the Altai-Sayan region of Central Asia is unclear. Here, the authors use pollen, biogenic silica, and isotope records from lake cores to show that the climate prompted human population expansion and intensified cultural exchange during the Bronze Age.

Lixiong Xiang
Xiaozhong Huang
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access29 May 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-9
El Niño modulations over the past seven centuries

The El Niño/Southern Oscillation exhibits considerable natural variability on interdecadal to centennial timescales making it difficult to understand how climate change affects it. A reconstruction now shows there has been anomalously high activity in the late twentieth century, relative to the past seven centuries. This is suggestive of a response to global warming, and will provide constraints to improve climate models and projections.

Jinbao Li
Shang-Ping Xie
Keyan Fang
Research02 Jul 2013
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 3, P: 822-826
Sustainable intensification of millet–pig agriculture in Neolithic North China

The development of complex societies and their agricultural bases underlies key challenges we still face. This study demonstrates sustainable intensification of a pig and millet system that helped feed the earliest complex societies in North China.

Jishuai Yang
Dongju Zhang
Fahu Chen
Research16 Jun 2022
Nature Sustainability

Volume: 5, P: 780-786
A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

Fossil evidence indicates that Denisovans occupied the Tibetan Plateau in the Middle Pleistocene epoch and successfully adapted to this high-altitude hypoxic environments long before the regional arrival of modern Homo sapiens.

Fahu Chen
Frido Welker
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Research01 May 2019
Nature

Volume: 569, P: 409-412
Chemical and structural studies provide a mechanistic basis for recognition of the MYC G-quadruplex

Targeting noncoding nucleic acids with small molecules represents an important and significant challenge in chemical biology and drug discovery. Here the authors characterize DC-34, a small molecule that exhibits selective binding to specific G4 structures, and provide a structural basis for its selectivity

David R. Calabrese
Xiang Chen
John S. Schneekloth Jr.
ResearchOpen Access12 Oct 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-15
Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability

Millennial-scale climate oscillations can arise from orbital forcing alone during relatively stable glacial climate states, according to an analysis of high- and low-latitude climate proxy records as well as climate modelling.

Xu Zhang
Stephen Barker
Fahu Chen
Research01 Nov 2021
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 14, P: 819-826
Cenozoic evolution of spring persistent rainfall in East Asia and North America driven by paleogeography

The emergence of the spring persistent rainfall in East Asia since the Miocene and its decline in North America was determined by paleogeographic events through mid-latitude Rossby wave trains, as revealed by climate models integrated with climate proxies.

Linqiang He
Tianjun Zhou
Wenxia Zhang
ResearchOpen Access27 Feb 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-8
Onset of frequent dust storms in northern China at ~AD 1100

Yuxin He
Cheng Zhao
Zhonghui Liu
ResearchOpen Access26 Nov 2015
Scientific Reports

Volume: 5, P: 1-7
High-resolution summer precipitation variations in the western Chinese Loess Plateau during the last glacial

Zhiguo Rao
Fahu Chen
Jan Bloemendal
ResearchOpen Access27 Sept 2013
Scientific Reports

Volume: 3, P: 1-6
Discrepancies in lacustrine bacterial lipid temperature reconstructions explained by microbial ecology

Salinity and pH-driven variations in microbial communities significantly affect bacterial lipid compositions, leading to temperature overestimations in reconstructions, based on machine learning clustering of lake sediment data and bacterial analysis.

Jie Liang
Manuel Chevalier
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access05 Dec 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-14
Role of Pacific Ocean climate in regulating runoff in the source areas of water transfer projects on the Pacific Rim

Feng Chen
Shijie Wang
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access29 Jun 2024
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Volume: 7, P: 1-9
A comprehensive dataset of luminescence chronologies and environmental proxy indices of loess-paleosol deposits across Asia

Guoqiang Li
Zhongfeng Yan
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access03 Jan 2024
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Volume: 7, P: 1-13
Ecological and societal effects of Central Asian streamflow variation over the past eight centuries

Feng Chen
Yujiang Yuan
Heli Zhang
ResearchOpen Access30 Mar 2022
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Volume: 5, P: 1-8
East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

Fahu Chen
Qinghai Xu
Zhiguo Rao
ResearchOpen Access18 Jun 2015
Scientific Reports

Volume: 5, P: 1-11
Nature-based Solutions can help restore degraded grasslands and increase carbon sequestration in the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological restoration projects are expected to increase the terrestrial carbon sink of Tibetan Plateau grassland ecosystems by 15 to 21 tetragrams of carbon by 2060, under high to low emissions scenarios, according to a meta-analysis and model simulations over the period 1960-2100.

Jian Sun
Yingxin Wang
Bojie Fu
ResearchOpen Access26 Mar 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-12
Early Pleistocene climate in western arid central Asia inferred from loess-palaeosol sequences

Xin Wang
Haitao Wei
Fahu Chen
ResearchOpen Access03 Feb 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-9
East Asian warm season temperature variations over the past two millennia

Huan Zhang
Johannes P. Werner
Jürg Luterbacher
ResearchOpen Access16 May 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-11

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