DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.022
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84928004252
论文题名: 2700 years of Mediterranean environmental change in central Italy: Asynthesis of sedimentary and cultural records to interpret past impacts of climate on society
作者: Mensing S.A. ; Tunno I. ; Sagnotti L. ; Florindo F. ; Noble P. ; Archer C. ; Zimmerman S. ; Pavón-Carrasco F.J. ; Cifani G. ; Passigli S. ; Piovesan G.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 116 起始页码: 72
结束页码: 94
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Central italy
; Geochemistry
; Historical documents
; Late holocene
; Mediterranean environments
; Paleoenvironmental change
; Paleomagnetism
; Pollen
; Roman empire
; Society and climate
Scopus关键词: Deforestation
; Economics
; Geochemical surveys
; Geochemistry
; Geomagnetism
; History
; Land use
; Reforestation
; Sedimentology
; Urban growth
; Central Italy
; Historical documents
; Late Holocene
; Mediterranean environment
; Paleoenvironmental change
; Paleomagnetism
; Pollen
; Roman empire
; Society and climate
; Climate change
; archaeological evidence
; deforestation
; environmental change
; environmental degradation
; land management
; Little Ice Age
; Medieval
; paleoclimate
; paleolimnology
; paleomagnetism
; palynomorph
; reforestation
; sediment core
; socioeconomic status
; urban population
; Italy
; Mediterranean Region
英文摘要: Abrupt climate change in the past is thought to have disrupted societies by accelerating environmental degradation, potentially leading to cultural collapse. Linking climate change directly to societal disruption is challenging because socioeconomic factors also play a large role, with climate being secondary or sometimes inconsequential. Combining paleolimnologic, historical, and archaeological methods provides for a more secure basis for interpreting the past impacts of climate on society. We present pollen, non-pollen palynomorph, geochemical, paleomagnetic and sedimentary data from a high-resolution 2700yr lake sediment core from central Italy and compare these data with local historical documents and archeological surveys to reconstruct a record of environmental change in relation to socioeconomic history and climatic fluctuations. Here we document cases in which environmental change is strongly linked to changes in local land management practices in the absence of clear climatic change, as well as examples when climate change appears to have been a strong catalyst that resulted in significant environmental change that impacted local communities. During the Imperial Roman period, despite a long period of stable, mild climate, and a large urban population in nearby Rome, our site shows only limited evidence for environmental degradation. Warm and mild climate during the Medieval Warm period, on the other hand, led to widespread deforestation and erosion. The ability of the Romans to utilize imported resources through an extensive trade network may have allowed for preservation of the environment near the Roman capital, whereas during medieval time, the need to rely on local resources led to environmental degradation. Cool wet climate during the Little Ice Age led to a breakdown in local land use practices, widespread land abandonment and rapid reforestation. Our results present a high-resolution regional case study that explores the effect of climate change on society for an under-documented region of Europe. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59943
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作者单位: Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States; Dendrology Lab, DAFNE Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy; Department of Geosciences, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, United States; Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryCA, United States; Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Recommended Citation:
Mensing S.A.,Tunno I.,Sagnotti L.,et al. 2700 years of Mediterranean environmental change in central Italy: Asynthesis of sedimentary and cultural records to interpret past impacts of climate on society[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,116