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It is known from present-day climates that both temporal and spatial variations in precipitation can be more
pronounced than those in temperature and thus influence ecosystems and human society in more substantial
way. However, very little is known about such variations in the past. Here we present an analysis of 206
palaeoprecipitation data from tw...
We present two eight-million year long proxy records of precipitation for Southwest and Central Europe, covering the middle to late Miocene (5.3–13 Ma) at a temporal resolution of about 60 kyr and 150 kyr, respectively. The estimates of precipitation are based on the ecophysiological structure of herpetological assemblages (amphibians and reptiles)...
Existing methods for determining paleoprecipitation are subject to large errors (؎350–
400 mm or more using mammalian proxies), or are restricted to wet climate systems due
to their strong facies dependence (paleobotanical proxies). Here we describe a new paleo-
precipitation tool based on an indexing of ecophysiological groups within herpetologica...
Distributional and ecophysiologic data are obtained from the following references and databases: Balletto et al. 1985; Emms and Barnett 2005; Engelmann et al. 1993; Hussein and Darwish 2001; Kuzmin 1995; Raxworthy and Attuquayefio 2000; Rödel and Agyei 2002; Schleich et al. 1996; Spawls et al. 2002; Stuart 1999; China Species Information Service (C...
