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Marked regionalism during the Last Glacial across the Italian Peninsula: Evidence from the large mammal assemblage of Santa Maria di Agnano (Apulia, southern Italy) 意大利半岛末次冰川时期明显的区域性:来自 Santa Maria di Agnano(意大利南部阿普利亚)大型哺乳动物群的证据
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109767
B. Mecozzi , P. Magniez , D. Coppola , D. Borić , H. Baills
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Tracing natural and anthropic dynamics in alluvial and coastal plain through multidisciplinary sources: A new protocol for the study of historical landscapes in Val di Cornia (southern Tuscany, Italy) 通过多学科资源追踪冲积和海岸平原的自然和人为动力学:科尔尼亚山谷(意大利托斯卡纳南部)历史景观研究的新方案
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109725
Giulio Poggi , Vanessa Volpi , Luisa Dallai
{"title":"Tracing natural and anthropic dynamics in alluvial and coastal plain through multidisciplinary sources: A new protocol for the study of historical landscapes in Val di Cornia (southern Tuscany, Italy)","authors":"Giulio Poggi ,&nbsp;Vanessa Volpi ,&nbsp;Luisa Dallai","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109725","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109725","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The reconstruction of historical landscapes in alluvial and coastal plains is challenging due to the intense transformations of the territory caused by fluvial and coastal dynamics, as well as anthropogenic influences such as modern agricultural practices and land reclamation activities. Therefore, multidisciplinary studies and the use of a wide range of environmental proxies have become fundamental to evaluating the entangled interconnections between human activities and natural environmental processes within the context of landscape evolution.</div><div>This study explores the long-term interplay between humans and the environment in the lower Val di Cornia, an alluvial and coastal plain in central Italy (southern Tuscany) along the Tyrrhenian coast. Drawing on recent geomorphological analysis, the archaeological record has been reinterpreted within an updated environmental framework, further enriched by newly conducted geochemical and cartographic analysis. Spanning from the 7th century BC to the 11th century AD, this research aims to reconstruct both natural characteristics and the transformative role of human agency.</div><div>New data revealed that specific locations corresponding to elevated depositional fluvial features were particularly attractive for settlement due to their reduced hydraulic hazards and the coarse-grained soils resistant to water stagnation. However, settlement patterns were shaped not only by geomorphology but also by cultural and economic factors, including proximity to resources, access to road networks, and evolving land-use strategies. While this is particularly evident for the period between the 4th century BC to the 2nd century AD, when the archaeological record is more solid, a combination of variables has also been identified for describing Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Through the integration of diverse data sources, this study overcomes the chronological limitations inherent in individual records—archaeological, historical, or cartographic—enabling a broader understanding of landscape transformations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"728 ","pages":"Article 109725"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143748071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chemical composition influences δ18O of chironomid larvae head capsules - Implications for climate reconstructions 化学成分影响摇尾蛾幼虫头囊的δ18O -气候重建的意义
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-04-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109766
Christoph Mayr , Julieta Massaferro , Holger Wissel , Andreas Lücke
{"title":"Chemical composition influences δ18O of chironomid larvae head capsules - Implications for climate reconstructions","authors":"Christoph Mayr ,&nbsp;Julieta Massaferro ,&nbsp;Holger Wissel ,&nbsp;Andreas Lücke","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109766","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109766","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Oxygen isotopes of chironomid head capsules in lake sediments have become an important proxy for climate reconstructions, especially for high-latitude regions. Various chemical pretreatments have been developed to remove organic and inorganic contaminants and to clean the head capsules prior to isotope analysis, but so far there is no standardised routine method to assess the purity of the isolated chitin. We present a dataset of oxygen isotope analyses of head capsules from seven lakes in southern South America. The head capsules were assigned to three different taxonomic groups of Chironomidae (Chironominae, Orthocladiinae, Tanypodinae) and to Ceratopogonidae. Orthocladiinae exhibited on average higher isotopic fractionation relative to lake water than the other taxonomic groups, although these differences were not statistically significant. Elemental analyses demonstrate that the oxygen content and molar N/O ratio of the head capsules have a larger influence on oxygen isotopic composition than the host water isotopic composition suggesting a strong influence of incomplete deproteination on oxygen isotope values of chironomid head capsules. This is backed up by an experimental approach with differently pretreated chironomids, which exhibits a strong correlation with N/O ratio presumably due to various degrees of deproteination. According to the N/O ratio, pure chitin was obtained after removal of the minerogenic fraction with a mixture of 10 % HF and 5 % HCl (16 h, 20 °C) and subsequent treatment with 5 % NaOH (2 h) and 7 % NaClO<sub>2</sub> (10 h). In conclusion, we recommend using the N/O ratio for purity control and a critical assessment of different pretreatment methods to obtain pure chitin in future studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"728 ","pages":"Article 109766"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143748070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Charcoal insights on the vegetation, climate and subsistence patterns at Wonderwerk Cave 用木炭观察神奇洞穴的植被、气候和生存模式
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109755
Busisiwe Hlophe, Marion K. Bamford
{"title":"Charcoal insights on the vegetation, climate and subsistence patterns at Wonderwerk Cave","authors":"Busisiwe Hlophe,&nbsp;Marion K. Bamford","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109755","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109755","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wonderwerk Cave is one of the most important archaeological sites in central southern Africa as it preserves multiple indicators of past environments, climates and human behavior. The cave has the potential to provide important palaeoenvironmental and palaeoethnobotanical information that can be applied to the less archeologically understood central southern African region. This study provides the vegetation and climate context of the interior southern African region during 2.3–0.5 ka BP by using charcoal from strata 2b and 3a of Wonderwerk Cave. The study also provides possible human-plant interactions during this time. A total of 90 charcoal fragments were studied under a microscope, their taxonomy determined, and the modern distribution of nearest living relatives utilized to determine the environmental conditions of the area in the past. A second method was applied by associating the physiognomic features of wood charcoal with the habitat. Both methods indicate a dry environment dominated by shrubs and small trees such as <em>Ozoroa paniculosa</em>, <em>Searsia lancea, Olea europaea</em> subsp. <em>africana, Ziziphus mucronata, Grewia flava, Tarchonanthus parvicapitulatus, Diospyros austro-africana, Euclea undulata, Ehretia</em> sp and <em>Vitex rehmanii.</em> Wet environment-tolerant species such as <em>Ochna serrulata</em> and <em>Olinia ventosa</em> might suggest fluctuations in climatic conditions or the presence of microhabitats such as streams or underground water. The analyses overall indicate the environment 2.3-0.5 ka BP was open and arid but slightly wetter than the area presently.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"728 ","pages":"Article 109755"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143724227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes 确定蒂瓦纳库的兴衰和崩塌后安第斯山脉的物质文化的年代
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109742
Erik J. Marsh , Bruce Owen , Antti Korpisaari , Nicola Sharratt , Paul Goldstein , Ben Vining , Sarah Baitzel , Susan deFrance , Mark Hubbe , Santiago Ancapichún
{"title":"Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes","authors":"Erik J. Marsh ,&nbsp;Bruce Owen ,&nbsp;Antti Korpisaari ,&nbsp;Nicola Sharratt ,&nbsp;Paul Goldstein ,&nbsp;Ben Vining ,&nbsp;Sarah Baitzel ,&nbsp;Susan deFrance ,&nbsp;Mark Hubbe ,&nbsp;Santiago Ancapichún","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109742","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper presents a comprehensive Bayesian refinement of the chronology of Tiwanaku material culture. To place this material pattern in space, we present a presence-only map of most sites with Tiwanaku redware ceramics, snuff trays, and textiles. We compile radiocarbon dates and assess their material associations before building Bayesian models. We present bespoke calibration curve mixtures for each major region, based on air mixtures from climate models. The models suggest that redwares burst onto the scene in the AD 600s in the Lake Titicaca Basin (Peru and Bolivia) and around the same time, snuff trays with the same iconography appeared in burials at San Pedro de Atacama (Chile). Other parts of the Andes first saw this material culture later, and only in the AD 900s was it clearly present in all regions. Around <em>∼</em><em>AD 1040</em>, Tiwanaku redwares were no longer used at Tiwanaku or in Moquegua. Residents of the Western Valleys immediately innovated new post-collapse styles derived from Tiwanaku redwares, appearing and fading away at different times in different valleys. A small community near Lake Titicaca maintained old traditions for generations, including the use of raised fields and Tiwanaku burials. We assess temporal alignments and disjunctures in order to highlight variability of Tiwanaku material culture, long assumed to be fairly homogeneous over space and time. This opens the door to more nuanced, generation-scale questions about the interaction networks that assembled and disassembled Tiwanaku.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"727 ","pages":"Article 109742"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Bone histology of Smilodon populator and Puma concolor from the Pleistocene of equatorial Brazil with comments on fossil diagenesis 巴西赤道地区更新世剑齿虎种群和美洲狮的骨组织学及化石成岩作用的评析
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109741
Virgínia Silva Maciel , Tito Aureliano , Claude Luiz de Aguilar Santos , Aline M. Ghilardi
{"title":"Bone histology of Smilodon populator and Puma concolor from the Pleistocene of equatorial Brazil with comments on fossil diagenesis","authors":"Virgínia Silva Maciel ,&nbsp;Tito Aureliano ,&nbsp;Claude Luiz de Aguilar Santos ,&nbsp;Aline M. Ghilardi","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change over the last 50,000 years has significantly impacted large mammals. Large felids have been one of the groups most affected by these fluctuations. Palaeohistology is a tool for understanding the palaeobiological aspects of extinct species. Taphonomic analysis, in turn, allows us to understand the formation of fossil assemblages and palaeoclimatic characteristics. In this study, we sampled the femoral histology of the largest saber-toothed felid in the Americas, <em>Smilodon populator</em> (MCC-868V), and a fossil specimen of <em>Puma concolor</em> (MCC-991V), both from Quaternary deposits in Rio Grande do Norte, Northeast Brazil. The presence of EFS (External Fundamental System), generations of secondary osteons, and remodeled bone tissue indicate that both individuals had reached sexual maturity. However, MCC-868V was a young adult at the time of death, and MCC-991V was a senescent adult. Estimated mass for the <em>S. populator</em> specimen (157 kg) is lower than expected, even though the individual analyzed was a fully grown adult. There are no histopathological indicators that this <em>S. populator</em> individual underwent restrictions throughout its growth, which suggests a truly smaller individual. Smaller size may be a trait selected in a local population in Northeastern Equatorial Brazil due to the specific environmental and ecological conditions of the region. The morphometric analysis found that size did not correlate with bone thickness both among several felid taxa and within a <em>Smilodon</em> population. As no significant histological differences were found between <em>P. concolor</em> and <em>S. populator</em>. Fractures filled with iron oxide were found in both specimens. There is permineralization in <em>S. populator</em> and micritization in <em>P. concolor</em>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"727 ","pages":"Article 109741"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143725884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Humans, forests, and timber production in southern Italy 2000 years ago: Insights from Herculaneum on the unknown “Wood Age” 2000年前意大利南部的人类、森林和木材生产:赫库兰尼姆对未知的“木材时代”的见解
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109744
Alessia D'Auria , Daniela Moser , Salvatore Pasta , Gaetano Di Pasquale
{"title":"Humans, forests, and timber production in southern Italy 2000 years ago: Insights from Herculaneum on the unknown “Wood Age”","authors":"Alessia D'Auria ,&nbsp;Daniela Moser ,&nbsp;Salvatore Pasta ,&nbsp;Gaetano Di Pasquale","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109744","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109744","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The city of Herculaneum (Naples, southern Italy), buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, is a key site for understanding the relationship between man and forest timber economy during the Roman period. This is possible thanks to the large amount of wood samples, both charred and waterlogged, which belong to building structures as well as furniture. Our work consisted both in a review of published data and in the identification of 62 new waterlogged wood remains. The literature permitted to collect information on various types of building elements and wooden furniture. In total, 641 samples (charcoal and waterlogged wood) were counted. Softwood is by far the preferred timber for both building purposes and furniture. <em>Abies alba</em> Mill. is especially used, this fact suggesting a more important role played by this species in southern Italian forests during the recent Holocene; its decline is probably due to the overexploitation characteristic of the Roman period. The significant presence of <em>Cupressus sempervirens</em> L., mainly used for poles production, confirms that this tree was cultivated in plantations for timber production in the Vesuvius area. The presence of <em>Picea abies</em> (L.) H. Karst indicates the importation of timber from the Alps. Regarding wood for furniture, despite the abundance of artifacts, available data are too limited to perceive specific uses for furniture. Finally, the low percentages of deciduous <em>Quercus</em>, <em>Castanea sativa</em> Mill. and <em>Fagus sylvatica</em> L. suggest that their use was reserved for other purposes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"728 ","pages":"Article 109744"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143724228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Late Quaternary alluvial fan stratigraphy and chronology, Elqui, Turbio and Claro valleys, semiarid Andes of Chile 智利半干旱安第斯山脉Elqui、Turbio和Claro山谷晚第四纪冲积扇地层和年代学
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109765
José L. Antinao , Antonio Maldonado , Laura Díaz , Robert M. Negrini , Rachel Tiner , Valentina Flores-Aqueveque , Stella Maris Moreiras , Nathan Brown , Eric McDonald
{"title":"Late Quaternary alluvial fan stratigraphy and chronology, Elqui, Turbio and Claro valleys, semiarid Andes of Chile","authors":"José L. Antinao ,&nbsp;Antonio Maldonado ,&nbsp;Laura Díaz ,&nbsp;Robert M. Negrini ,&nbsp;Rachel Tiner ,&nbsp;Valentina Flores-Aqueveque ,&nbsp;Stella Maris Moreiras ,&nbsp;Nathan Brown ,&nbsp;Eric McDonald","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109765","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109765","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New mapping and luminescence geochronology of tributary alluvial fan deposits from the semiarid Subtropical Andes of Chile are used to infer Late Pleistocene–Holocene paleoclimate conditions for the region. During this period, alluvial fans descending from tributary catchments to major river valleys encroached on fluvial deposits, creating a record of interbedded fluvial-alluvial deposition, and in places, generated extensive river damming. The oldest sequence of fan deposition (∼40 ka) appears eroded and disconnected from active channel deposition. Other regionally distributed fan sequences are dated to 14–11 ka, ∼8 ka, and 3–1 ka. Common depositional timing of the thick 14–11 ka fans in catchments sourced from high and intermediate elevations suggests a common factor in generating these fans, possibly linked to a regional precipitation increase derived from Pacific moisture sources in the context of a gradual temperature rise since the local last glacial maximum. A short duration fan sequence occurred centered at ∼8 ka in some outlets sourced from high-elevation catchments. The occurrence of the 8 ka fans during the most arid period of the Holocene in the subtropical Andes suggests an easterly moisture source for the precipitation events that generated the fans, that could be associated with an effect of the 8.2 ka event (Bond event 5) leaking into the Southern Hemisphere. A minor Late Holocene aggradation period is linked to a regional humid period with westerlies as the principal moisture source and an increase in ENSO-warm signal frequency and intensity as a driver. Fan aggradation occurs during periods with both ascent and descent of the major regional vegetation ecotones. This observation suggests that, in this setting, hillslope hydrology and rainfall style control aggradation periods rather than vegetation change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"727 ","pages":"Article 109765"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143704272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Exploring ecological evolution and driving forces in arid desert oases: A case study of the Ejina Oasis in China 干旱区荒漠绿洲生态演化与驱动力研究——以额济纳绿洲为例
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109764
Xiuqiao Li , Xiaohui Jiang , Yuxin Lei , Wenjuan Cai , Xiaowei Shi
{"title":"Exploring ecological evolution and driving forces in arid desert oases: A case study of the Ejina Oasis in China","authors":"Xiuqiao Li ,&nbsp;Xiaohui Jiang ,&nbsp;Yuxin Lei ,&nbsp;Wenjuan Cai ,&nbsp;Xiaowei Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109764","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Arid regions cover approximately 30 % of the Earth's landmass with sparse vegetation. These regions are ecologically fragile and highly sensitive to environmental change. A comprehensive understanding of the factors driving vegetation change in arid regions can provide valuable insights for their vegetation restoration and conservation. This study focused on the Ejina Oasis, a representative case of oasis in the arid region. We analyzed the spatial and temporal changes of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from 2000 to 2020 using the Theil-Sen Median trend analysis and Mann-Kendall test. A structural equation model was applied to elucidate the mechanisms underlying vegetation change in the Ejina Oasis. Our results indicated that the overall NDVI of the Ejina Oasis remains low, and vegetation primarily concentrated around rivers and lakes. Since 2000, NDVI has shown a continuous increase, with annual growth rates of 0.0069/year for NDVI<sub>MEAN</sub> and 0.0071/year for NDVI<sub>MAX</sub>. The vegetation growth occurred mainly in the middle reaches of the West River and the lower reaches of the East River. The vegetation around the East Juyan Sea and Swan Lake showed a significant expansion. Water availability and human activities played significant roles in driving vegetation change. Our studies demonstrated that vegetation in arid regions is affected by a range of ecological factors beyond water availability. Furthermore, the application of structural equation model enabled the identification of key drivers of vegetation change. By examining these drivers at different stages, our study provided a new perspective for understanding the mechanism of vegetation change in arid regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49644,"journal":{"name":"Quaternary International","volume":"727 ","pages":"Article 109764"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143697411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Highland settling in the Early Mesolithic. Insight from the record of Cima Dodici open-air sites, Venetian pre-Alps (Italy) 中石器时代早期的高地定居。从威尼斯前阿尔卑斯山西马多迪奇露天遗址的记录中获得的启示(意大利)
IF 1.9 3区 地球科学
Quaternary International Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109756
Rachele Discosti , Davide Visentin , Federica Badino , Marco Peresani
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