DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.021
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84971268721
论文题名: Exploring the role of humans and climate over the Balkan landscape: 500 years of vegetational history of Serbia
作者: Kulkarni C. ; Peteet D. ; Boger R. ; Heusser L.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 144 起始页码: 83
结束页码: 94
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Central Balkans
; Human-environmental interactions
; Little Ice Age
; Paleoecology
; Serbia
Scopus关键词: Agriculture
; Analytical geochemistry
; Charcoal
; Glacial geology
; Stabilization
; Central Balkans
; Environmental interactions
; Little Ice Age
; Paleoecology
; Serbia
; Vegetation
; Amaranthaceae
; Poaceae
英文摘要: We present the first, well-dated, high-resolution record of vegetation and landscape change from Serbia, which spans the past 500 years. Biological proxies (pollen, spores, and charcoal), geochemical analysis through X-ray Fluorescence (XRF), and a detailed chronology based on AMS 14C dating from a western Serbian sinkhole core suggest complex woodland-grassland dynamics and strong erosional signals throughout the Little Ice Age (LIA). An open landscape with prominent steppe vegetation (e.g. Poaceae, Chenopodiaceae) and minor woodland exists during 1540-1720 CE (early LIA), while the late LIA (1720-1850 CE) in this record shows higher tree percentages possibly due to increased moisture availability. The post LIA Era (1850-2012 CE) brings a disturbed type of vegetation with the presence of weedy genera and an increase in regional woodland. Anthropogenic indicators for agricultural, pastoral and fire practices in the region together attest to the dominant role of humans in shaping this Balkan landscape throughout the interval. The changing nature of human interference, potentially as a response to underlying climatic transitions, is evident through large-scale soil depletion resulting from grazing and land clearance during the early LIA and stabilization of arable lands during the late and post-LIA eras. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59566
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作者单位: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY, United States; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, 61 Rte. 9W, Palisades, NY, United States; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College of CUNY, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Recommended Citation:
Kulkarni C.,Peteet D.,Boger R.,et al. Exploring the role of humans and climate over the Balkan landscape: 500 years of vegetational history of Serbia[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,144