A conceptual diagram of the Tarim River drainage regime in the Tarim Basin. Arrows show the flow regimes of the Tarim River catchment with inferred good (green) or poor (yellow) connectivity of channel networks. Question marks denote that no age data of plant remains in this study are from these segments.

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... the dates of these trees to ca. 1406 CE (MA of ring 30, σ = 31), 1398 CE (MA of ring 30, σ = 36) and 1465 CE (MA of ring 65, σ = 40). One sample has >200 rings, of which ring 7 was dated to 1171 CE (MA, σ = 52; Fig. S6). The ring-width data of tamarisks suggest slightly wider rings interrupt a generally narrow-ring pattern after a juvenile stage (Figs. ...

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... late seventeenth century and the nineteenth century were recovered from paleochannels of the upper to middle TR (Fig. 2G) and at the northern and southern margins of the delta (Fig. 2H). After the low-flow period, therefore, the channels of the lower TR were detached from the Kongque River and diverted from an eastward flow to a southward flow (Fig. 4C), implying that a proto-pattern of the modern TR network formed at that time. The timing of these paleochannels overlaps with the chronology of living poplars in those reaches from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries, suggesting that channels avulsed to the north and the south over distances of >100 km ( Fig. 4C; Fig. ...

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... to a southward flow (Fig. 4C), implying that a proto-pattern of the modern TR network formed at that time. The timing of these paleochannels overlaps with the chronology of living poplars in those reaches from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries, suggesting that channels avulsed to the north and the south over distances of >100 km ( Fig. 4C; Fig. ...