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Lipid biomarkers in high mountain lakes from the Cantabrian range (Northern Spain): Coupling the interplay between natural and anthropogenic drivers Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 José E. Ortiz, Yolanda Sánchez-Palencia, Ignacio López-Cilla, César Morales-Molino, Jon Gardoki, Trinidad Torres, Mario Morellón
The lipid content of a high mountain lake (Lake Isoba) allowed the reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental changes and anthropic influence in Northern Spain during the last 550 years. Fatty acids (FAs) and alkan-2-ones indicate little degradation of OM. Three units were delimited. During Unit A (ca. 1460-1780 CE) high carbon preference index values, predominance of high-molecular-weight saturated
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Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Highland Areas in Kastamonu, Turkey Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Ezgi Gur, Sahin Palta, Halil Baris Ozel, Tugrul Varol, Hakan Sevik, Mehmet Cetin, Nurhan Kocan
This study aimed to assess the potential impact of global climate change on the highland areas of Kastamonu, a significant province in Turkey known for its numerous and varied highlands. The investigation focused on 59 selected highland locations within the region. Using the De Martonne climate classification, projections were made for four future periods (2040, 2060, 2080, and 2100) under two scenarios:
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Holocene palaeoecological archives of Eastern Mediterranean plant diversity: Past, present and future trends Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Christophe Morhange, Zhongyuan Chen, Yanna Wang, Thierry Otto, Frédéric Luce, Rachid Cheddadi
The Mediterranean Basin is an environmental change hotspot that, relative to other regions of the world, is forecasted to experience a significant shift in biodiversity due to multiple factors such as climate change and agricultural intensification. Within this framework, the Eastern Mediterranean region is projected to face a temperature rise of ∼3.5–7 °C by 2070–2099 which will result in severe heat
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Sensitivity of a meandering lowland river to intensive landscape management: Lateral migration rates before and after watershed-scale agricultural development Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Bruce L. Rhoads, Alison M. Anders, Poushalee Banerjee, David A. Grimley, Andrew Stumpf, Neal E. Blair
Agricultural development has transformed the vegetation cover of many landscapes around the world, thereby altering water and sediment fluxes to river systems. Past work in the upper midwestern United States, particularly in areas of moderate relief, has shown that increases in water and sediment fluxes associated with agricultural development have dramatically altered river dynamics. Less is known
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Chloride hydrogeochemistry of the finger lakes in Central and Western New York, USA Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 John D. Halfman, MaryBridget Horvath
Road deicing salts have impacted the hydrogeochemistry of lakes throughout the snow-belt region of the globe. This paper advances our understanding of the historical change in salt concentrations in, and sources to, the Finger Lakes of western and central New York state, and compares the results to other lakes across the globe. Surface water samples from Honeoye, Canandaigua, Keuka, Seneca, Cayuga
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Knowledge influences perceptions and values of nature-based solutions: The example of soil and water bioengineering techniques applied to urban rivers Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 M. Cottet, A. François, C. Moreau, C. Lecaude, S. Vukelic, A. Rivière-Honegger, A. Evette
Soil and water bioengineering (SWBE) is a nature-based solution (NBS) that can be used to stabilize riverbanks with living vegetation. Aside to protecting property and people, SWBE provides benefits for human well-being and biodiversity. Its use remains modest in cities, where the presumed benefits are important in a context of biodiversity crisis and warming. Negative public perceptions have been
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Saltwater intrusion and sea level rise threatens U.S. rural coastal landscapes and communities Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Kiera L. O’Donnell, Emily S. Bernhardt, Xi Yang, Ryan E. Emanuel, Marcelo Ardón, Manuel T. Lerdau, Alex K. Manda, Anna E. Braswell, Todd K. BenDor, Eric C. Edwards, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Ashley M. Helton, John S. Kominoski, Amy E. Lesen, Lindsay Naylor, Greg Noe, Kate L. Tully, Elliott White, Justin P. Wright
The United States (U.S.) coastal plain is subject to rising sea levels, land subsidence, more severe coastal storms, and more intense droughts. These changes lead to inputs of marine salts into freshwater-dependent coastal systems, creating saltwater intrusion. The penetration of salinity into the coastal interior is exacerbated by groundwater extraction and the high density of agricultural canals
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Increased black carbon (soot) accumulation during the Anthropocene in a less-developed region of Xinjiang, northwestern China Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Dewen Lei, Yongming Han, Changlin Zhan, Chong Wei, Yalan Tang, Meiling Guo, Jianing Zhang, Jingyu Li
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Sedimentary records of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorine pesticides to reconstruct anthropogenic activities in Lake Issyk-Kul region (Kyrgyzstan), and their effects on the lake environment Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Qianyu Li, Guo Ru, Jinglu Wu, Miao Jin
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Conservation from the bottom up: A forestry case study Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Thomas H. DeLuca, Jeff A. Hatten
There is currently great interest in increasing the total land area in ‘conservation’ by the year 2030 to stabilize biodiversity and reduce net carbon emissions to combat climate change; however, there remains a lack of clarity on what actually constitutes ‘conservation.’ Land placed into permanent protection from resource utilization falls under the category of land preservation (e.g. National Parks)
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Recent increase in sediment dry matter, carbon, and phosphorus accumulation in small boreal lakes with clayey catchments Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 J. Mäkinen, M. Tammelin, T. Kauppila
This study estimated the mass accumulation rates of sediment (MAR), carbon (CMAR), and phosphorus (PMAR) in small Finnish lakes with agricultural clayey catchments over a 25-year period (1986–2011) and compared these with the conditions before major agricultural land use. Twenty-two lakes were cored for recent and reference (pre-disturbance) sediments. The recent sediment section was selected based
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Divergent glacier area and elevation changes across the Tibetan Plateau in the early 21st century Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Can Zhang, Weijie Ran, Shiming Fang, Shougeng Hu, Michael Beckmann, Martin Volk
With accelerated warming, mountain glaciers in most parts of the world have been in a state of continuous retreat in recent decades. Assessing glacier change and analyzing its influencing factors are essential for developing climate change mitigation and adaptation measures for a given region. This study provides a spatially explicit assessment and quantification of glacier changes in the early 21st
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Linking prescribed fire, nutrient deposition and cyanobacteria dominance through pyroeutrophication in a subtropical lake ecosystem from the mid Holocene to present Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Matthew N. Waters, Joseph M. Smoak, Richard S. Vachula
Prescribed fire (Rx-fire) is a common management tool for many forested ecosystems and promotes tree and forest soil health. Although burned materials from Rx-fire areas can enter adjacent aquatic environments, very few studies have focused on the water quality impacts of increased nutrients on aquatic primary producer communities. Here, we applied paleolimnological techniques on a 170-cm sediment
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Corrigendum to: “Hidden levees: Small-scale flood defense on rural coasts” [Anthropocene 40, 100350] Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Emily A. Hall, Grace D. Molino, Tyler C. Messerschmidt, Matthew L. Kirwan
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Nature-based solutions for leveed river corridors Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Matthew L. Chambers, Charles B. van Rees, Brian P. Bledsoe, David Crane, Susana Ferreira, Damon M. Hall, Rod W. Lammers, Craig E. Landry, Donald R. Nelson, Matt Shudtz, Burton C. Suedel
The conceptual framework for nature-based solutions (NbS) is well developed, however realizing the potential of NbS at scale and in widespread professional practice in infrastructure systems depends on overcoming operational challenges rooted in the historical policies and engineering practices of the action agencies capable of implementation. In this article, we explore levee setbacks as a NbS for
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Comparative Analysis of Historical Human and Biogeomorphic Interactions in Large River-floodplain Systems Under Different Climate Contexts Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 María Díaz-Redondo, Khosro Fazelpoor, Vanesa Martínez-Fernández
Worldwide, trajectories of deterioration of large rivers’ natural structure and functioning have been described and related to anthropogenic pressures acting at different spatio-temporal scales. However, the variety of methodologies, time-scale resolutions and the lack of standard indicators frequently hinder the comparison of outcomes among rivers in different geographic and climatic regions. Covering
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Response of vegetation dynamics in environmentally sensitive and fragile areas to natural and anthropogenic factors: A case study in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Dan Zhao, Zuwei Wang, Xiangjun Wu, Tian Qiu
Vegetation dynamics is crucial for understanding vegetation ecosystem processes in arid and semi-arid regions. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) is a typical arid and semi-arid region in China, where vegetation has been significantly altered in response to multiple disturbances over recent decades. However, vegetation dynamics under changing environment and the integrated driving effects
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Spatial patterns of PM2.5-bound heavy metals and analysis of their influencing factors in China Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Yue Zeng, Xiannan Ning, Yunqin Li, Qianfeng Wang, Xinying Zhang
This study investigates the relationship between the spatial distribution patterns of heavy metals (HMs) in atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and their influencing factors in China, in order to address air pollution problems. Using HM data from PM2.5 collected from 88 Chinese cities between 2012 and 2020, the study employed a combination of enrichment factor (EF) analysis, standard deviation
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Historical changes in biomass carbon stocks in the Mediterranean (Spain, 1860–2010) Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Juan Infante-Amate, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi, Eduardo Aguilera
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Settling the riverscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): long-term human overprint on landforms and present-day geomorphological hazard Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Luca Forti, Manuela Pelfini, Varoujan K. Sissakian, Andrea Zerboni
This paper presents a geomorphological reconstruction of the urban landscape of Erbil (Kurdistan Region of Iraq), aimed at explaining how human groups settled the region since the prehistory and contributed modifying natural surface processes. Our reconstruction on landforms evolution is based on satellite and historical aerial images and field control allowing the reconstruction of changes in land
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Snow avalanches in relation to tourism and transportation activities in the Făgăraş Mountains, Romanian Carpathians Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Mircea Voiculescu, Marcel Török-Oance, Patrick Chiroiu, Florentina Popescu
In mountainous regions, avalanches can seriously damage tourist infrastructure, roads, and forests and lead to loss of human life. The analyses were performed in the Făgăraş Mountains, Southern Carpathians-Romania. This study addresses the following questions: How does risk differ over time depending on the snow avalanche activity? (ii) How reliable are complementary, statistical, and dendrogeomorphological
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Publications reveal how socio-ecological research is implemented: Lessons from the Rhône long term socio-ecological research platform Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Poirier Clara, Le Lay Yves-François, Achard Anne-Laure, Roux-Michollet Dad, Arnaud Fanny, Barthélémy Carole, Castella Emmanuel, Carrel Georges, Charpentier Anne, Coquery Marina, Comby Emeline, Forcellini Maxence, Olivier Jean-Michel, Piégay Hervé, Radakovitch Olivier, Lamouroux Nicolas
Socio-ecological research enlists inter- and transdisciplinarity to address complex environmental issues. Yet the “socio-ecological system” concept can be interpreted in many different ways. A characterization of the diverse practices in socio-ecological research could facilitate dialogue between researchers about the possible conceptual and ethical approaches. In this study, we investigated if a detailed
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Climate mitigation and adaptation: Regional imbalance in research efforts Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Sai Leung Ng
Mitigation and adaptation coping with the adverse effects of climate change are crucially important in managing the risk. Research on climate mitigation and adaptation serves as the foundational pillar upon which resilient strategies are constructed. By examining 1835 journal articles indexed by Scopus, geographic patterns of research efforts and collaborations on mitigation and adaptation to climate
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Light and equity: The projections of bringing light to populations in need across Brazil Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Eduardo Guimarães Santos, Alison M. Gainsbury, Helga Correa Wiederhecker
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Unveiling the past: Utilizing satellite imagery archives to study archaeological landscapes in the northeastern Nile Delta, Egypt Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Mohammed Hagage, Abdulaziz M. Abdulaziz, Abdel-Galil A. Hewaidy, Said A. Shetaia
This paper investigates the utilization of satellite imagery archives in the northeastern Nile Delta to examine and explore the evolution of archaeological landscapes. The study incorporates optical satellite imagery from multiple sensors, including Landsat, ASTER, and CORONA, in addition to historical topographic maps, and digital elevation data. The methodology involves employing Support Vector Machine
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Impact of climate change under the RCP8.5 emission scenario on multivariable agroclimatic indices in Western Canada from convection-permitting climate simulation Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Richard Y.K. Agyeman, Fei Huo, Zhenhua Li, Yanping Li, Mohamed E. Elshamy, Yunsung Hwang
Climate change will impact crop production in Western Canada by modifying growing season conditions. Precipitation pattern changes and warmer temperatures will pose significant risks to crops. Studies have shown that multivariable agroclimatic indices can enhance climatic impact assessment on crop production. This study uses multivariable agroclimatic indices to assess how climate change may impact
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Future Projections of Wind Energy Potentials in the Arctic for the 21st Century Under the RCP8.5 Scenario From Regional Climate Models (Arctic-CORDEX) Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Mirseid Akperov, Alexey V. Eliseev, Annette Rinke, Igor I. Mokhov, Vladimir A. Semenov, Mariya Dembitskaya, Heidrun Matthes, Muralidhar Adakudlu, Fredrik Boberg, Jens H. Christensen, Klaus Dethloff, Xavier Fettweis, Oliver Gutjahr, Günther Heinemann, Torben Koenigk, Dmitry Sein, René Laprise, Ruth Mottram, Oumarou Nikiéma, Stefan Sobolowski, Wenxin Zhang
The Arctic has warmed more than twice the rate of the entire globe. To quantify possible climate change effects, we calculate wind energy potentials from a multi-model ensemble of Arctic-CORDEX. For this, we analyze future changes of wind power density (WPD) using an eleven-member multi-model ensemble. Impacts are estimated for two periods (2020-2049 and 2070-2099) of the 21st century under a high
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Legacy sediment and stream incision in the North Carolina Piedmont: Fluvial evolution before and after mill dam construction Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Bradley G. Johnson, Hannah Rieden, Roy Paul Mullinax
Streams in the southern Piedmont are consistently incised forming deep (∼ 1–3 m) channels within wide valley bottoms. Here, we use a variety of methods to determine the drivers of stream incision in the region. We mapped ∼ 140 historic dams throughout the region since the breaching of mill dams is a known driver of incision elsewhere. We examined stream banks at 20 sites previously dammed and 8 sites
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Human Impact on Vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) During the Last Seven Centuries Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Irene Sophie Polgar, Bernd Zolitschka, Hermann Behling
Studying the legacies of past human-environment interactions is essential for understanding current landscape and biodiversity patterns. Human influences on past terrestrial and aquatic vegetation are reconstructed based on palynological analysis conducted on a sediment core from Lago di Vedana (Province of Belluno, Northern Italy). This study represents the first pollen record from the Dolomitic lowlands
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Identification and prioritisation of ecosystem services based on the socio-economic perspectives of local people in a trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, India Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Sabir Hussain, Sheenu Sharma, Anand Narain Singh
Mountain ecosystems provide numerous services vital for the existence of humankind globally. The present study was conducted in the Ladakh region of India to evaluate the socio-cultural values of the ecosystem services provided by the mountainous region. Questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions were used for data collection. It was observed that the respondents identified provisioning
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Megafauna extinctions in the late-Quaternary are linked to human range expansion, not climate change Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Rhys Taylor Lemoine, Robert Buitenwerf, Jens-Christian Svenning
The Earth has lost approximately half of its large mammal species (≥45 kg, one-third of species ≥9 kg) over the past 120,000 years, resulting in depauperate megafauna communities worldwide. Despite substantial interest and debate for over a century, the reasons for these exceptionally high extinction rates and major transformation of the biosphere remain contested. The predominant explanations are
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Catchment-wide interactive effects of anthropogenic structures and river levels on fish spawning migrations Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 William M. Jubb, Richard A.A. Noble, Jamie R. Dodd, Andrew D. Nunn, Paula Schirrmacher, Angus J. Lothian, Atticus J. Albright, Damian H. Bubb, Martyn C. Lucas, Jonathan D. Bolland
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Intersecting security, equity, and sustainability for transformation in the Anthropocene Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Nicholas R. Magliocca
Transformative rather than incremental adaptation will be necessary to keep pace with rapidly changing social-ecological systems characteristic of the Anthropocene. Alongside mounting urgency for transformative adaptation, there is also growing recognition that it is no longer possible to achieve sustainable transformation without also addressing security and equity concerns. Thus, dimensions of security
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Factors affecting invasion process of a megadiverse country by two exotic bird species Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Adrián Ceja-Madrigal, Rodrigo Pacheco-Muñoz, Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, Pilar Rodríguez, Margarita Jiménez-Cruz, Jorge E. Schondube
Understanding the factors underlying bird invasions is crucial for their management. Here, the invasion processes of Mexico by the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the Eurasian Collared-Dove (Streptopelia decaocto) are analyzed. A 30 × 30 km grid-cell map with the presence/absence of both species was generated using citizen-science data to describe their invasion patterns in time and space
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Assessing human impacts on soil organic carbon change in the Lower Namoi Valley, Australia Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Ho Jun Jang, Mercedes Roman Dobarco, Budiman Minasny, Jose Padarian Campusano, Alex McBratney
The impact from humans on soils, particularly in terms of intensive agriculture, has been most noticeable in the last 200 years. Intensive agricultural activities have caused soil organic carbon (SOC) to decline in many parts of the world. However, there is a dearth of approaches that can spatially estimate the change of SOC due to human influence. Here, we used the concept of Pedogenon to stratify
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Identification of alkaline amendment sources (slash and burn versus marling) for cereal crops grown in the North of France: A multiple isotope approach (87Sr/86Sr, δ44/40Ca, δ88/86Sr) Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 A.-D. Schmitt, T. Hoang Trinh, S. Gangloff, V. Matterne, F. Spicher, B. Brasseur
Early farmers used at least two types of agrarian amendments that could raise pH and base saturation levels to allow the cultivation of cereals: marling and plant ash. Ash can be input in many different ways: felling and burning in place, transferring plant material from wastelands and spreading the ash, charring sod or peat blocks, burning stubble after harvest. Marling includes all the practices
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Chemical speciation of sediment phosphorus in a Ramsar wetland Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Ry Crocker, William H. Blake, Thomas H. Hutchinson, Sean Comber
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Unprecedented shift in Canadian High Arctic polar bear food web unsettles four millennia of stability Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Jennifer Routledge, Christian Sonne, Robert J. Letcher, Rune Dietz, Paul Szpak
Stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope analysis was conducted on modern and archaeological polar bear bone collagen from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago to investigate potential changes in polar bear foraging ecology over four-millennia. Polar bear δ13C values showed a significant decline in the modern samples relative to all archaeological time-bins, indicating a disruption in the sources
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Land cover flows and land use intensity in the three decades of the post-communist Czechia: Changing trends and driving forces Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Petra Grešlová, Josef Laštovička, Přemysl Štych, Jan Kabrda
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Transitions from coral to sponge-dominated states alter trophodynamics in associated coral reef fish assemblages Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Charlotte L. Mortimer, Sarah Bury, Matthew R. Dunn, Abdul Haris, Jamaluddin Jompa, James J. Bell
Coral reefs are extremely productive ecosystems, but widespread changes to benthic community structure resulting from anthropogenic impacts are likely to impact the transfer of organic matter between trophic levels, altering trophodynamics and functional diversity. We used stable isotope analysis to investigate differences in resource availability, niche width and trophic diversity of seven coral reef
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Crop response pattern to several drought timescales and its possible determinants: A global-scale analysis during the last decades Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Vempi Satriya Adi Hendrawan, Wonsik Kim, Daisuke Komori
Crop response characteristics to different timescales of precipitation deficit may represent crop system resilience to drought characteristics. In this study, we assess the crop yield response of major crops to meteorological drought estimated by a standardized precipitation index with multiple timescales (1–12 months) during 1981–2016 all over the globe. We estimate that about one- to two-thirds of
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The coupling of agricultural water footprint and socioeconomic development in ecological functional zones: A case study of Gansu Province, China Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Jingwen Kou, Chengyi Li, Weijing Ma
Water footprint accounting can evaluate the real occupancy of water resources by combining the consumption of blue water and green water. In this study, we calculated agricultural water footprint (AWF) including six patterns of crops water footprint (CWF) and three patterns of animal products water footprint (APWF) from 2000 to 2020 in Gansu Province, China, then the spatiotemporal matching pattern
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Identifying a scenario for preindustrial cropland cover using cultivation data: A case study of France, Germany and Italy Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Diyang Zhang, Yujie Lu, Xiuqi Fang, Yu Ye, Chengpeng Zhang, Xue Zheng
Cropland expansion is effected by physiogeographic and sociocultural factors, which vary across region and over time, but have not been adequately represented in large-scale anthropogenic land cover change scenarios. Taking preindustrial cropland expansion in France, Germany, and Italy as a case study, this study first adopted a productivity-based estimation of cropland per capita, which converted
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Urban spatial dynamic modeling based on urban amenity data to inform smart city planning Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Zipan Cai, Yoonshin Kwak, Vladimir Cvetkovic, Brian Deal, Ulla Mörtberg
An ideal form of smart city planning would focus on the availability of urban amenities that can meet the basic needs of a resident’s material life, civil connections, and humanistic spirit. Previous studies have concentrated on analyzing the spatial distribution of urban services, with less attention on their contribution as local urban amenities. In this study, we propose a spatial dynamic modeling
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Future climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields, production, and market Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Chengcheng Fei, Jonas Jägermeyr, Bruce McCarl, Erik Mencos Contreras, Carolyn Mutter, Meridel Phillips, Alex C. Ruane, Marcus C. Sarofim, Peter Schultz, Amanda Vargo
This study provides estimates of climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural yields and the agricultural economy through the end of the 21st century, utilizing multiple climate scenarios. Results from a process-based crop model project future increases in wheat, grassland, and soybean yield due to climate change and atmospheric CO2 change; corn and sorghum show more muted responses. Results using yields
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1100-years history of transformation of the East European forest-steppe into arable land: Case study from Kursk region (Russia) Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Alisa Kasianova, Monika Schmidt, Oleg Radyush, Ekaterina Lukanina, Jens Schneeweiß, Frank Schlütz, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh
Large parts of the East European forest-steppe are covered by agricultural and pastoral landscapes with decreasing proportions of semi-natural meadow steppes and fragments of semi-natural woodland. Although numerous palynological records indicate that a total deforestation occurred in the last 500 years, the details of the transformation from natural vegetation into an agrarian landscape are still
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Removal notice to “Patterns of plant mortality caused by a copper mine spill” [Anthropocene 39 (2022) 100344] Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Francisco Molina-Freaner, José Martínez-Rodríguez
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Harnessing the connectivity of climate change, food systems and diets: Taking action to improve human and planetary health Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Jessica Fanzo, Lais Miachon
With climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing conflicts, food systems and the diets they produce are facing increasing fragility. In a turbulent, hot world, threatened resiliency and sustainability of food systems could make it all the more complicated to nourish a population of 9.7 billion by 2050. Climate change is having adverse impacts across food systems with more frequent and intense
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Herbivore rewilding does not promote biodiversity in Argentine Andean peatlands Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Carlos J. Navarro, Julieta Carilla, Oriana Osinaga Acosta, Carolina Nieto, Ramiro Ovejero, H. Ricardo Grau
The Argentine Puna is an example of rewilding of the herbivore community, with wild camelids recovering (mainly vicuñas, Vicugna vicugna and guanacos Lama guanicoe) while livestock decreases. Peatlands are the most diverse ecosystem in the region and are key resources for herbivores. Here, we tested the hypothesis that herbivore rewilding is associated with higher biodiversity of three biological groups:
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Natural landscapes preferred for the location of past watermills and their predisposition to preserve cultural landscape enclaves Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Dawid Szatten, Marta Brzezińska, Michael Maerker, Zbigniew Podgórski, Dariusz Brykała
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The meanings of the Critical Zone Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Raymond M. Lee, Boris Shoshitaishvili, Rachel L. Wood, Jeremy Bekker, Benjamin W. Abbott
The original meaning of the Critical Zone (CZ) was spatial and pointed to one physical referent: the terrestrial surface of the entire Earth. As usage increased among researchers in the geosciences, social sciences, and humanities, new meanings led to the concept pointing to different places and ideas. Emerging trends have expanded the CZ further: CZs are mapped in computational spacetime and on distant
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of forest ecosystems revealed by the LiDAR-based characterization of medieval field systems (Vosges Mountains, France) Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Benjamin Keller, Pierre Alexis Herrault, Dominique Schwartz, Gilles Rixhon, Damien Ertlen
Relics of past agricultural practices, former field systems have strongly imprinted many modern landscapes and have thus significantly disrupted forest ecosystems over the last centuries. Former field systems in the Hautes-Vosges mountain range (north-eastern France) date primarily to the medieval period (6–15th century C.E.) and consist of parcelled or linear structures on hillslopes and valley floors
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Lead isotope fingerprinting techniques help identify and quantify 3000 years of atmospheric lead pollution from Laguna Roya, northwestern Iberia Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Melissa P. Griffore, Alyssa E. Shiel, Elizabeth C. Rutila, Aubrey L. Hillman, Fernando Barreiro-Lostres, BL Valero-Garcés, Mario Morellón, Mark B. Abbott
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Sedimentation on the Siberian Arctic Shelf as an indicator of the arctic hydrological cycle Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Valeriy Y. Rusakov, Alexander P. Borisov
Siberia occupies a significant part of the Eurasian continent and environmental changes in this region can have an important impact on the climate system of the Northern Hemisphere. The sediment flux of Siberian rivers is sensitive to changes in physical, chemical, and biological processes taking place on the continent, and these changes can be recorded in marine sediments on the Siberian Arctic Shelf
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Climatic extremes, violent conflicts, and population change in China in 1741–1910: An investigation using spatial econometrics Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Harry F. Lee, Wei Qiang
Climatic extremes and violent conflicts can play a significant role in reducing a country’s population. However, the occasional coexistence and interplay of climatic extremes and violent conflicts make it difficult to quantify their individual or collective demographic impacts and associated spatial dynamics, and thus to determine which plays the more important part. Can long-term historical data shed
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Recognizing flood exposure inequities across flood frequencies Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Haley Selsor, Brian P. Bledsoe, Roderick Lammers
Urban flooding is a growing threat due to land use and climate change. Vulnerable populations tend to have greater exposure to flooding as a result of historical societal and institutional processes. Most flood vulnerability studies focus on a single large flood, neglecting the impact of small, frequent floods. Therefore, there is a need to investigate inequitable flood exposure across a range of event
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Assessment of hydrological response with an integrated approach of climate, land, and water for sustainable water resources in the Khari River basin, India Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Nikita Mundetia, Devesh Sharma, Aditya Sharma, Swatantra Kumar Dubey, Bijon K. Mitra, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Hanseok Jeong
Lack of integrated approaches in the assessment of land, water, and climate-related problems leads to the development of ineffective solutions at the country level. It put further challenges to achieve regional-level sustainable development targets. This is particularly true for countries like India where water, land, and climate problems are very complex and interconnected starting from the watershed
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Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph Fyfe, David Smith, Anne de Varielles, Ruth Pelling, Michael J. Grant, Robert Batchelor, Robert Scaife, James Greig, Petra Dark, Denise Druce, Geoff Garbett, Adrian Parker, Tom Hill, J. Edward Schofield, Mike Simmonds, Frank Chambers, Catherine Barnett, Martyn Waller
Land-use change plays an important role in shaping plant and insect diversity over long time timescales. Great Britain provides an ideal case study to investigate patterns of long-term vegetation and insect diversity change owing to the existence of spatially and temporally extensive environmental archives (lake sediments, peatlands, and archaeological sites) and a long history of landscape transformation
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Hydrological responses to co-impacts of climate change and land use/cover change based on CMIP6 in the Ganjiang River, Poyang Lake basin Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Li Gong, Xiang Zhang, Guoyan Pan, Jingyi Zhao, Ye Zhao
Climate change and Land Use/Cover Change, affected by human activity, are the two main factors influencing the regional water cycle and water management. However, studies of co-impacts based on future scenario predictions are still lacking. This study proposed a complete methodology for simulating future changes in water resources and distinguishing the independent and synergistic effects of climate
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Holocene human-environment interactions across the Northern American prairie-forest ecotone Anthropocene (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Michelle D. Briere, Konrad Gajewski
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