Session OSM 08
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Natural and Anthropogenic Transformation of Land Cover During the Holocene
Convenors
Carsten Lemmen, Marie-José Gaillard, Jed Kaplan, Anupama Krishnamurthy
Description
A long-term and supraregional reconstruction of the state of the planet and societies over the Holocene must take into account the dynamic transformations of the Earth's surface by natural and anthropogenic processes. In terms of past land-cover changes, the local to regional spatial scales of palaeoecological and -climatological reconstructions and archaeological/historical evidence meet the spatial scale of global palaeo-Earth System and human ecology models; in terms of past land-cover changes, reconstructions are confronted with deductive approaches from palaeodemography and -economy.
This session aims to achieve a dialogue between the research communities: those systematically collecting and interpreting proxy data that can be used to inform and improve models of past land-cover change; and those developing and exploring spatially and temporally explicit models of human activities needed for hypotheses testing on the dynamic interactions between people and land cover. Together, we want to disentangle natural from anthropogenic causes behind land-cover changes and its impacts. We also wish to discuss the Anthropocene issue, whether the concept is useful and, if so, how to define its lower boundary. Studies using a multidisciplinary approach and/or stimulating discussion on integration of social and natural sciences are particularly relevant, as well as as studies on - but not necessarily limited to - tropical and monsoon-affected regions.
This session contributes to the PAGES Focus 4 'Past Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions' programme and, in particular, the working groups on Regional Integration, Human Impact on Terrestrial Ecosystems (HITE), and Land Use and Land Cover.
Talks and Posters
Talks
Thursday, 14 February 14:00 - 15:30
Chair: Carsten Lemmen, Marie-José Gaillard
14:00 - 14:15
Human Impact on Vegetation and Soils in Northern Karnataka, India: Integrating Archaeological and Palaeoecological Data from the Last 5000 Years
Kathleen Morrison
14:15 - 14:30
From forest to farmland and moraine to meadow: Integrated modeling of Holocene land cover change
Jed O. Kaplan, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Kristen M. Krumhardt, Basil A. S. Davis, Marco Zanon, Pamela M. Collins, Achille Mauri
14:30 - 14:45
Assessing the early Iron Age landscape and human activities in southern India: phytolith and archaeological studies of a Megalithic burial site
Premathilake Rathnasiri, Prasad Srinivasan, Anupama Krishnamurthy, Rajan K., Yathees Kumar V.P.
14:45 - 15:00
Land cover-climate interactions in NW Europe, 6000 BP and 200 BP – first results of the Swedish LANDCLIM project
Anna-Kari Trondman, Marie-José Gaillard, Shinya Sugita, Ralph Fyfe, Jed Kaplan, Laurent Marquer, Florence Mazier, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Anneli Poska, Gustav Strandberg
15:00 - 15:15
Soil erosion processes and long-term human-environment-interactions in central Europe and SE-USA
Markus Dotterweich
15:15 - 15:30
Holocene Vegetation and Climate history of Peninsular India from terrestrial archives: Problems and Prospects
Anupama Krishnamurthy, Prasad Srinivasan
Posters
Display: Wednesday, 13 February and Thursday, 14 February
Author attendance: Thursday 16:00 - 18:00
Chair: Carsten Lemmen, Marie-José Gaillard
A large-scale erosion anomaly (2nd c. BC- 4th c. AD) in NW Alps: a locally-defined onset of the Anthropocene?
Fabien Arnaud, Laurent Astrade, Manon Bajard, Jean-François Berger, Yves Billaud, Emmanuel Chapron, Christian Crouzet, Fernand David, Philip Deline, Elise Doyen, Charline Giguet-Covex, Jérémy Jacob, Melaine Le Roy, Laurent Millet, Jérôme Poulenard, Sidonie Révillon, Pierre-Jérôme Rey, Pierre Sabatier, Anaëlle Simonneau, Pierre Taberlet, Boris Vannière
Deforesting Europe: towards a pollen-based reconstruction of Holocene land cover change
Neil Roberts, Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph Fyfe
Early Neolithic diets at Baijia, Wei River valley, China: stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of human and faunal remains
Pia Atahan, John Dodson, Xiaoqiang Li, Xinying Zhou, Songmei Hu, Liang Chen, Fiona Bertuch, Kliti Grice
Exploring the spatio-temporal archaeological and landscape dynamics of early farming communities using Bayesian approaches
Nicki Whitehouse, Phil Barratt, M. Jane Bunting, Rick Schulting, Meriel McClatchie, T. Rowan McLaughlin, Rob Marchant, Amy Bogaard, Sue Colledge
Grazing activities and vegetation history in the Pyrenees inferred from palaeoecological data
Galop Didier, MAZIER Florence, CUGNY Carole, RIUS Damien
Holocene climate and environmental changes in the Horton Plains, Sri Lanka
Rathnasiri Premathilake
Holocene Vegetation changes in the Cauvery Floodplains, southern India: A case study
Stephen A, P. P Mohapatra, Anupama Krishnamurthy, Prasad Srinivasan, Pramod Singh
Holocene vegetation estimates for selected regions in Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Vojtech Abraham, Libor Petr, Helena Svitavská-Svobodová, Radka Kozáková, Petr Pokorný, Petr Kuneš
Human impact on lowland rainforest and early maritime dispersal of bananas: evidence from Sri Lanka
Rathnasiri Premathilake
Impact of monsoonal variation on vegetation and climate change as inferred from late Holocene sediment of Garbhanga reserve forest, Assam, north east India: a pollen based study
Samir Kumar Bera, Kanupriya Gupta, Azizur Rahman
Integrated prehistory of people and environment: linking the global scale to regional narratives
Carsten Lemmen, Aurangzeb Khan, Kai W Wirtz, Detlef Gronenborn
Late Holocene variations from Lake Rutundu, mount Kenya
Christine Omuombo, Daniel Olago, Stephen Rucina, David Williamson
Late Holocene vegetation vis á vis climate dynamics from Hasila wetland, western Assam, Northeast India: Pollen and diatom record
Swati Dixit
Palynological methods for land-cover reconstruction in semi-arid Peninsular India
Anupama Krishnamurthy, Prasad Srinivasan, Aravajy S, Ponnuchamy R, Stephen A, Anusree A.S.
REVEALS-based reconstruction of regional vegetation and land cover for evaluation of a dynamic vegetation model along N-S and W-E transects in NW Europe
Laurent Marquer, Marie-José Gaillard, Shinya Sugita, Anneli Poska, Anna-Kari Trondman, Florence Mazier, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Ralph Fyfe, Bent Vad Odgaard, Teija Alenius, John Birks, Anne E. Bjune, Jörg Christiansen, Thomas Giesecke, Mihkel Kangur, Tiiu Koff, Malgorzata Latalowa, Jutta Lechterbeck, Heikki Seppä
Southern Westerlies postglacial dynamics at Central Chilean Patagonia (Río Cisnes valley, 44°S)
María Eugenia de Porras, Antonio Maldonado, Flavia Quintana, Cesar Méndez, Omar Reyes
Towards an Earth System Model with Interactive Culture: feedback effects between land use change and global climate change
Carsten Lemmen, Kerstin Haberkorn
