Search Results - "King, John W"
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Environmental change explains cichlid adaptive radiation at Lake Malawi over the past 1.2 million years
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-10-2016)“…Long paleoecological records are critical for understanding evolutionary responses to environmental forcing and unparalleled tools for elucidating the…”
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Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 y B.P
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-04-2014)“…The Indo-Pacific warm pool houses the largest zone of deep atmospheric convection on Earth and plays a critical role in global climate variations. Despite the…”
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Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification
Published in Scientific reports (27-06-2014)“…The monsoon is a fundamental component of Earth's climate. The Pliocene warm period is characterized by long-term global cooling yet concurrent monsoon…”
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Continuous 1.3-million-year record of East African hydroclimate, and implications for patterns of evolution and biodiversity
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-12-2015)“…The transport of moisture in the tropics is a critical process for the global energy budget and on geologic timescales, has markedly influenced continental…”
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East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-10-2007)“…The environmental backdrop to the evolution and spread of early Homo sapiens in East Africa is known mainly from isolated outcrops and distant marine sediment…”
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Enhancement mechanisms of magnetic susceptibility in the Chinese red-clay sequence
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-10-2007)“…Little is known about the mechanisms of magnetic susceptibility (χ) enhancement for the red‐clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), in comparison to…”
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Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-10-2007)“…Extremely arid conditions in tropical Africa occurred in several discrete episodes between 135 and 90 ka, as demonstrated by lake core and seismic records from…”
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Northeast US precipitation variability and North American climate teleconnections interpreted from late Holocene varved sediments
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-11-2011)“…A more thorough understanding of regional to hemispheric hydroclimate variability and associated climate patterns is needed in order to validate climate models…”
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Temporal trends of triclosan contamination in dated sediment cores from four urbanized estuaries: Evidence of preservation and accumulation
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (2010)“…Triclosan is an antimicrobial agent added to a wide array of consumer goods and personal care products. Through its use, it is introduced into municipal sewer…”
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Link between benthic oxygen isotopes and magnetic susceptibility in the red-clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau
Published in Geophysical research letters (01-02-2008)“…Recent rock magnetic work on the red‐clay sequence on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) convincingly demonstrates that the enhancement mechanisms of…”
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Consistent grain size distribution of pedogenic maghemite of surface soils and Miocene loessic soils on the Chinese Loess Plateau
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-03-2010)“…There is agreement that ultrafine maghemite grains (<100 nm) are responsible for the magnetic enhancement of Chinese loess. Recent studies show that grain size…”
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Radiocarbon Dating of Individual Lignin Phenols: A New Approach for Establishing Chronology of Late Quaternary Lake Sediments
Published in Analytical chemistry (Washington) (01-09-2010)“…The reliability of chronology is a prerequisite for meaningful paleoclimate reconstructions from sedimentary archives. The conventional approach of radiocarbon…”
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Genome-wide association study of interferon-related cytopenia in chronic hepatitis C patients
Published in Journal of hepatology (01-02-2012)“…Background & Aims Interferon-alfa (IFN)-related cytopenias are common and may be dose-limiting. We performed a genome wide association study on a…”
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Anthropogenic electromagnetic fields (EMF) influence the behaviour of bottom-dwelling marine species
Published in Scientific reports (06-03-2020)“…Many marine animals have evolved sensory abilities to use electric and magnetic cues in essential aspects of life history, such as to detect prey, predators…”
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The distribution and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Narragansett Bay surface sediments
Published in Marine pollution bulletin (01-02-2004)“…Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were measured in 41 surface sediments from Narragansett Bay, RI. All the analytes generally decrease down bay from the…”
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Post-Hurricane Sandy Benthic Habitat Mapping at Fire Island National Seashore, New York, USA, Utilizing the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS)
Published in Estuaries and coasts (01-06-2022)“…In 2012, Hurricane Sandy created a new tidal inlet at Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS) in New York, USA, consequently altering environmental conditions…”
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Medical phycology 2017
Published in Medical mycology (Oxford) (01-04-2018)“…In 2014, ISHAM formed a new working group: "Medical Phycology: Protothecosis and Chlorellosis." The purpose of this working group is to help facilitate…”
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Interleukin-28B Polymorphism Improves Viral Kinetics and Is the Strongest Pretreatment Predictor of Sustained Virologic Response in Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Virus
Published in Gastroenterology (New York, N.Y. 1943) (01-07-2010)“…Background & Aims We recently identified a polymorphism upstream of interleukin ( IL ) -28B to be associated with a 2-fold difference in sustained virologic…”
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Abrupt changes in the water balance of tropical West Africa during the late Quaternary
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres (27-06-2008)“…Understanding the causes of tropical climate variability requires an understanding of not only the temporal patterns of these changes, but their spatial extent…”
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OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY AND BENTHIC HABITAT CHANGES: Lessons from Block Island Wind Farm
Published in Oceanography (Washington, D.C.) (01-12-2020)“…The Block Island Wind Farm (BIWF), situated offshore of Block Island, Rhode Island, is the first commercial offshore wind farm (OWF) in the United States. We…”
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