Drought facilitated the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire in the 1230s

Weipeng Yue, Feng Chen, Olga Solomina, Jan Esper, Nicole K. Davi, Ulf Büntgen, Shijie Wang, Vladimir Matskovsky, Caroline Leland, Leonid Agafonov, Max C.A. Torbenson, Magdalena Opała-Owczarek, Mao Hu, Marina Gurskaya, Zulfiyor Bakhtiyorov, Xiaoen Zhao, Yang Xu, Heli Zhang, Youping Chen, Fahu Chen

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10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010
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2026-07
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Fundamental Research
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Elsevier BV
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@article{allodium:10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010,
  title = {Drought facilitated the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire in the 1230s},
  author = {Weipeng Yue and Feng Chen and Olga Solomina and Jan Esper and Nicole K. Davi and Ulf Büntgen and Shijie Wang and Vladimir Matskovsky and Caroline Leland and Leonid Agafonov and Max C.A. Torbenson and Magdalena Opała-Owczarek and Mao Hu and Marina Gurskaya and Zulfiyor Bakhtiyorov and Xiaoen Zhao and Yang Xu and Heli Zhang and Youping Chen and Fahu Chen},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Fundamental Research},
  doi = {10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Drought facilitated the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire in the 1230s
AU  - Weipeng Yue
AU  - Feng Chen
AU  - Olga Solomina
AU  - Jan Esper
AU  - Nicole K. Davi
AU  - Ulf Büntgen
AU  - Shijie Wang
AU  - Vladimir Matskovsky
AU  - Caroline Leland
AU  - Leonid Agafonov
AU  - Max C.A. Torbenson
AU  - Magdalena Opała-Owczarek
AU  - Mao Hu
AU  - Marina Gurskaya
AU  - Zulfiyor Bakhtiyorov
AU  - Xiaoen Zhao
AU  - Yang Xu
AU  - Heli Zhang
AU  - Youping Chen
AU  - Fahu Chen
PY  - 2026
JO  - Fundamental Research
DO  - 10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010
ER  - 

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Yue, W., Chen, F., Solomina, O., Esper, J., Davi, N. K., Büntgen, U., Wang, S., Matskovsky, V., Leland, C., Agafonov, L., Torbenson, M. C., Opała-Owczarek, M., Hu, M., Gurskaya, M., Bakhtiyorov, Z., Zhao, X., Xu, Y., Zhang, H., Chen, Y., & Chen, F. (2026). Drought facilitated the westward expansion of the Mongol Empire in the 1230s. Fundamental Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.010

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