DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.035
论文题名: Late Quaternary changes in climate and land cover in the Northern Horn of Africa and adjacent areas
作者: Lanckriet S. ; Rangan H. ; Nyssen J. ; Frankl A.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2017
卷: 482 起始页码: 103
结束页码: 113
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Environmental history
; Ethiopian Highlands
; Human-environment interaction
; Paleoclimate
; Sea surface temperature
英文摘要: Most studies of landscape dynamics in the Ethiopian Highlands offer linear relations of population pressure and periodic droughts as causes of environmental degradation. Such views rely on limited historical information of one or two centuries, which is inadequate for understanding the longer term effects of climatic shifts on landscape dynamics and environmental change in the Highlands. In this study, we conducted a “meta-analysis” of long-term climate and biogeographic change and landscape dynamics during the Holocene using multi-proxy evidence from lacustrine (n = 10), marine (n = 5), geomorphic (n = 13) and vegetation (n = 7) records from the highlands and the wider Horn of Africa and western Indian Ocean region. Based on the datasets, we discern Late Pleistocene dry phases in the region during the Last Glacial Maximum, the Heinrich 1 event and the Younger Dryas. Additionally, we recognize at least six dry phases during the Holocene (after 6500 BCE, 4900 BCE, 3700 BCE, 1000 BCE, 450 CE and 1750 CE). The hydroclimatic shifts seem associated with changing equatorial Atlantic and western Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures. Further, the results show nonlinear relations between major Holocene climate shifts and grassland expansions in the Highlands. Our findings challenge conventional cause-effect explanations of human population growth and land degradation, and point instead to potentially strong but unexplored feedbacks between climate changes, human activity and landscape dynamics over longer and short term periods. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/67793
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作者单位: Department of Geography, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 (S8), Ghent, Belgium; School of Geography, The University of MelbourneVIC, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Lanckriet S.,Rangan H.,Nyssen J.,et al. Late Quaternary changes in climate and land cover in the Northern Horn of Africa and adjacent areas[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2017-01-01,482