{"title":"北美草原森林交错带全新世人类与环境的相互作用","authors":"Michelle D. Briere , Konrad Gajewski","doi":"10.1016/j.ancene.2022.100367","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The North American prairie-forest border is a major biogeographic boundary ultimately determined by the macroclimate. Climate variability during the Holocene affected the vegetation in this area, but impacts on human paleodemography are unknown. At a regional scale, community structure is partly determined by fire, however the extent to which anthropogenic burning has affected fire regimes over the Holocene is unresolved. This study investigates the interaction between climate variability, vegetation changes, fire regimes, and human population levels in the North American prairie-forest ecotone during the Holocene using information from publically-available paleoenvironmental databases. Biomass burning was associated with moisture and vegetation more than with human population size, suggesting anthropogenic burning did not significantly influence the composition and location of the prairie-forest border. Human population growth rates were impacted by sociocultural developments and environmental changes, with most changes in subsistence strategies occurring during climate regime shifts. The development of the Eastern Agricultural Complex (5.0 – 3.8 ka) and the transition to more mesic conditions after 4.0 ka facilitated long-term population growth. The arrival of maize and the bow-and-arrow at 2.2 and 1.6 ka, respectively, resulted in increased population growth, and after 1 ka, maize agriculture intensification, aided by a warmer climate, accelerated population growth. The collapse of the city of Cahokia is linked to a wider population decline across the Midwest precipitated by the Medieval Warm Period – Little Ice Age transition. Populations across a significant portion of North America were in decline at the time of European colonization. These findings provide evidence against a large-scale early Anthropocene in North America, and illustrate the importance of climate change in influencing human history.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56021,"journal":{"name":"Anthropocene","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone\",\"authors\":\"Michelle D. Briere , Konrad Gajewski\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.ancene.2022.100367\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><p>The North American prairie-forest border is a major biogeographic boundary ultimately determined by the macroclimate. 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Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone
The North American prairie-forest border is a major biogeographic boundary ultimately determined by the macroclimate. Climate variability during the Holocene affected the vegetation in this area, but impacts on human paleodemography are unknown. At a regional scale, community structure is partly determined by fire, however the extent to which anthropogenic burning has affected fire regimes over the Holocene is unresolved. This study investigates the interaction between climate variability, vegetation changes, fire regimes, and human population levels in the North American prairie-forest ecotone during the Holocene using information from publically-available paleoenvironmental databases. Biomass burning was associated with moisture and vegetation more than with human population size, suggesting anthropogenic burning did not significantly influence the composition and location of the prairie-forest border. Human population growth rates were impacted by sociocultural developments and environmental changes, with most changes in subsistence strategies occurring during climate regime shifts. The development of the Eastern Agricultural Complex (5.0 – 3.8 ka) and the transition to more mesic conditions after 4.0 ka facilitated long-term population growth. The arrival of maize and the bow-and-arrow at 2.2 and 1.6 ka, respectively, resulted in increased population growth, and after 1 ka, maize agriculture intensification, aided by a warmer climate, accelerated population growth. The collapse of the city of Cahokia is linked to a wider population decline across the Midwest precipitated by the Medieval Warm Period – Little Ice Age transition. Populations across a significant portion of North America were in decline at the time of European colonization. These findings provide evidence against a large-scale early Anthropocene in North America, and illustrate the importance of climate change in influencing human history.
AnthropoceneEarth and Planetary Sciences-Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
CiteScore
6.30
自引率
0.00%
发文量
27
审稿时长
102 days
期刊介绍:
Anthropocene is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes peer-reviewed works addressing the nature, scale, and extent of interactions that people have with Earth processes and systems. The scope of the journal includes the significance of human activities in altering Earth’s landscapes, oceans, the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems over a range of time and space scales - from global phenomena over geologic eras to single isolated events - including the linkages, couplings, and feedbacks among physical, chemical, and biological components of Earth systems. The journal also addresses how such alterations can have profound effects on, and implications for, human society. As the scale and pace of human interactions with Earth systems have intensified in recent decades, understanding human-induced alterations in the past and present is critical to our ability to anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to changes in the future. The journal aims to provide a venue to focus research findings, discussions, and debates toward advancing predictive understanding of human interactions with Earth systems - one of the grand challenges of our time.