The Influence of Climatic Variation on the Climatic Productivity of Paddy Rice.

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses of Upper Holocene sediments from Dianshan, Yangtze coastal lowlands, China: Hydrology, vegetation history and human activity

“…The decline is attributed at nearby Lake Chaohu by Wu et al (2012b) to environmental factors, mainly flooding. Atmospheric temperature was the controlling factor (Sugihara, 1991) for rice cultivation in coastal eastern China in recent millennia (Zhang et al, 2007a), however, and while the higher temperatures in the first half of phase DS-c would have encouraged the expansion of rice agriculture, the subsequent reduction in temperature in the lower Yangtze (Li et al, 2018), starting from mid DS-c in Fig. 7E, might well have caused the decline of rice farming and prompted societal change and the end of the Tang (Fan, 2010;Zhang et al, 2010).…”