Environmental Drivers of the Late Neogene Expansion of C4 Ecosystems

Pratigya J Polissar1, Kevin T Uno2, Samuel R. Phelps2, Allison Karp3, Jake Andrae4, Katherine Freeman3, Francesca A McInerney4 and Peter B deMenocal2, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, (4)University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia