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DOI	10.1007/s00334-018-0710-y
	Holocene vegetation cycles, land-use, and human adaptations to desertification in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia
	Rosen, Arlene M.1; Hart, Thomas C.2; Farquhar, Jennifer 3; Schneider, Joan S.4; Yadmaa, Tserendagva 5
通讯作者	Rosen, Arlene M.
来源期刊	VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY
ISSN	0939-6314
EISSN	1617-6278
出版年	2019
卷号	28 期号:3 页码:295-309
英文摘要	Since the end of the Pleistocene some 11,700years ago, the landscape and vegetation of the Mongolian Gobi Desert has been profoundly changing, punctuated by the appearance of lakes, wetlands, and finally aridification. Vegetation communities have responded to these changes according to temperature shifts and northward to southward movements of the edges of East Asian monsoonal systems. Human groups have lived, foraged, and traveled through the landscape of the Gobi for millennia, adapting their technologies and systems of plant and animal use with the dramatic changes of flora and fauna, and likely contributed to the character of the vegetation communities in the region today. Pastoral nomads living in semi-arid regions are sometimes implicated as contributors to desertification. However, our research at the Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, Dornogovi Province, Mongolia has yielded geoarchaeological and phytolith data which show the opposite effect. Changing landscape and vegetation patterns from the Middle to Late Holocene suggest that early pastoralists might have contributed to a shift away from halophytic desert vegetation, and an increase in semi-arid desert-steppe grasses. We suggest that the halophytic succulents growing around saline ponds during the Mid-Holocene wet phase, were replaced by Stipa and other steppic grasses after pastoralists entered the region, increasing hillslope erosion which covered the saline sediments of the valley floor, and encouraged the growth of grass seeds carried in the dung of herd animals.
英文关键词	Early pastoralism Mongolian prehistory Gobi Desert Desertification Phytoliths Early Bronze Age
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	USA ; Mongolia
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000467911500007
WOS关键词	NORTH CENTRAL MONGOLIA ; ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES ; LOESS PLATEAU ; ARCHAEOLOGY ; CHINA ; LAKE ; SEDIMENTS ; EVOLUTION ; HISTORY ; IMPACT
WOS类目	Plant Sciences ; Paleontology
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences ; Paleontology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/219154
作者单位	1.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Anthropol, SAC 4-102,2201 Speedway Stop C3200, Austin, TX 78712 USA; 2.Franklin & Marshall Coll, Dept Anthropol, 415 Harrisburg Ave, Lancaster, PA 17603 USA; 3.Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Anthropol, 3302 WWPH, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA; 4.Calif State Pk, 6595 Hawarden Dr, Riverside, CA 92506 USA; 5.Mongolian Acad Sci, Inst Hist & Archaeol, Ulaanbaatar 51, Mongolia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rosen, Arlene M.,Hart, Thomas C.,Farquhar, Jennifer,et al. Holocene vegetation cycles, land-use, and human adaptations to desertification in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia[J],2019,28(3):295-309.
APA	Rosen, Arlene M.,Hart, Thomas C.,Farquhar, Jennifer,Schneider, Joan S.,&Yadmaa, Tserendagva.(2019).Holocene vegetation cycles, land-use, and human adaptations to desertification in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY,28(3),295-309.
MLA	Rosen, Arlene M.,et al."Holocene vegetation cycles, land-use, and human adaptations to desertification in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia".VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY 28.3(2019):295-309.