Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2024.03.008

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	Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China
	Dodson, John 1,2; Li, Xiaoqiang3 ; Song, Menglin 1,2
	2024-05-10
发表期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
卷号	691 页码:1-7
通讯作者	Dodson, John([email protected])
摘要	Humans have had profound and environmentally changing impacts on land cover, and China has many examples of this. It has been recognised for some time that middle to late Holocene forests in China have undergone changes that are best described as due to human impacts. Hence the Holocene has seen sometimes gradual and sometimes abrupt changes from forest dynamics driven by natural forces to those dominated by human impacts. This leads to a conclusion that it is often difficult to disentangle natural and anthropogenic controls on forest composition. In many cases records show minor changes in the early Holocene giving way to intense changes as agriculture expanded. The two earliest centres of extensive forest changes from 6 to 5 kyr BP were in the middle to lower Yellow and lower Yangtze valleys, where millet and rice agriculture developed. Major forest clearing was later in other areas, including the Pearl River valley, Northeast China and Yunnan. Forest clearing for agriculture was widespread in eastern China by 2 kyr BP. Where data is available it seems that initial clearing took place in valleys adjacent to rivers, presumably because these were the preferred living places for early farmers. Then gradually spread to nearby slopes. New approaches and technologies were needed to achieve this. The records show that north east China, north of the Liao River, and the mountains of central China were amongst the last places to record forest clearing, in some cases just within the last few hundred years, or not at all.
关键词	Holocene forest change Agriculture and land cover change Human impact eastern China Natural to anthropogenic changes across eastern China
DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2024.03.008
关键词[WOS]	NORTHWESTERN YUNNAN PROVINCE ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; POLLEN RECORD ; HUMAN IMPACT ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ; VEGETATION HISTORY ; RICE AGRICULTURE ; CLIMATE HISTORY ; NORTHEAST CHINA ; SOUTHERN CHINA
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB40000000]
项目资助者	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001232042900001
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
引用统计	被引频次：1[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23700
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Dodson, John
作者单位	1.Univ New South Wales, Sch Biol Earth & Environm Sci, Sydney, Australia 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, Xian, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Palaeontol & Palaeoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dodson, John,Li, Xiaoqiang,Song, Menglin. Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2024,691:1-7.
APA	Dodson, John,Li, Xiaoqiang,&Song, Menglin.(2024).Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,691,1-7.
MLA	Dodson, John,et al."Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 691(2024):1-7.