Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia

Global Change Biology, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 28(16), С. 4962 - 4976

Опубликована: Май 21, 2022

Understanding the history and regional singularities of human impact on vegetation is key to developing strategies for sustainable ecosystem management. In this study, fossil modern pollen datasets from China are employed investigate temporal changes in composition, analogue quality, diversity during Holocene. Anthropogenic disturbance vegetation's responses also assessed. Results reveal that assemblages non-forest communities fail provide evidence western part (annual precipitation less than 400 mm and/or elevation more 3000 m.a.s.l.), as inferred stable quality analogues, principal components, species throughout For eastern China, proportion spectra with good analogues increases ca. 50% 80% last 2 millennia, indicating an enhanced intensity anthropogenic vegetation. This has caused become taxonomically diverse over space (reduced abundances arboreal taxa increased herbaceous taxa), highlighting a reduced south-north differentiation divergence past between regions China. We recommend care taken when basing development management region 2000 years, since humans have significantly disturbed period.

Язык: Английский

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Sedimentary Pediastrum record of middle–late Holocene temperature change and its impacts on early human culture in the desert-oasis area of northwestern China

Quaternary Science Reviews, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 265, С. 107054 - 107054

Опубликована: Июнь 28, 2021

Язык: Английский

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Effects of human activities on mountain forest in northern China during the middle Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 288, С. 107580 - 107580

Опубликована: Июнь 10, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Direct dating of the earliest domesticated cattle and caprines in northwestern China reveals the history of pastoralism in the Gansu-Qinghai region

Journal of Archaeological Science, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 144, С. 105627 - 105627

Опубликована: Июнь 3, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Climate change was more important than human activity in late Holocene vegetation change on the southern Tibetan Plateau

Quaternary Science Reviews, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 354, С. 109245 - 109245

Опубликована: Фев. 12, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Dynamics of animal grazing intensity on the central-eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau during the middle-late Holocene

Quaternary Science Reviews, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 355, С. 109272 - 109272

Опубликована: Фев. 25, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Human activities facilitated the decline of forest ecosystem in East Asia after 5000 a BP

Earth-Science Reviews, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 245, С. 104552 - 104552

Опубликована: Сен. 3, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Anthropogenic mountain forest degradation and soil erosion recorded in the sediments of Mayinghai Lake in northern China

CATENA, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 207, С. 105597 - 105597

Опубликована: Июль 22, 2021

Язык: Английский

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Pollen-based land cover changes reveal temporal and spatial differences of human activity in north-central China during the Holocene

CATENA, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 219, С. 106620 - 106620

Опубликована: Сен. 9, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Spatiotemporal variation in human settlements and their interaction with living environments in Neolithic and Bronze Age China

Progress in Physical Geography Earth and Environment, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 46(6), С. 949 - 967

Опубликована: Май 3, 2022

It is evident that the origin, development, and expansion of agriculture animal husbandry during Neolithic Bronze Age periods across Eurasia facilitated increase world population emergence ancient civilizations, as well altering human livelihoods, especially in East Asia. However, different areas China have histories terms development extensive settlement period, spatial differences human–environment interaction are not yet understood. Here, we review up-to-date results radiocarbon dating, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological analysis from sites China, along with high-resolution paleoclimatic records, to explore spatiotemporal variation its relationship climate change period 10,000–2200 BP. The suggest intensities northern Asia Monsoon Region south were relatively low 10,000–6500 BP, a small peak ∼8000–7500 evidently increased since ∼6500 whereas farming groups began settle intensively on Tibetan Plateau inland arid region ∼5200 BP ∼4000 respectively. intensification was primarily induced by agricultural prehistoric Eurasia; may influenced hydrothermal vegetation conditions for crop cultivation livestock production. asynchronous intensive settlements resulted impact activities environments surrounding them shedding light evolution human–land periods.

Язык: Английский

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