Climate of the Past Discussions www.clim-past-discuss.net 1814-9340 1814-9359 3 4 2007 10.5194/cpd-3-871-2007 http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/871/2007/ http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/871/2007/cpd-3-871-2007.html http://www.clim-past-discuss.net/3/871/2007/cpd-3-871-2007.pdf 871 898 2007-07-06 Changes in C₃/C₄ vegetation in the continental interior of the Central Himalayas associated with monsoonal paleoclimatic changes during the last 600 kyr M. Mampuku T. Yamanaka M. Uchida R. Fujii T. Maki H. Sakai Department of Evolution of Earth Environments, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Ropponmatsu, Fukuoka 810-8560, Japan Institute of Oceanographic Research for Global Changes (IORGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan now at: Division of Earth Science, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530, Japan now at: Environmental Chemistry Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba 305-8560, Japan now at: Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama 236-0001, Japan A continuous lacustrine sediment core obtained from the Kathmandu Valley in the Central Himalayas revealed that cyclical changes in C₃/C₄ vegetation corresponded to global glacial-interglacial cycles from marine isotope stages (MIS) 15 to MIS 4. 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