Late Holocene human impact on the vegetation around Mizorogaike Pond in northern Kyoto Basin, Japan: a comparison of pollen and charcoal records with archaeological and historical data

Sasaki, Naoko; Takahara, Hikaru

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.12.013

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“…Green vegetation was excessively logged and used by human beings to support their productive and living activities [13]. Industrial growth in urban areas, including highway and railway construction, water use, mining and power generation, have directly consumed a huge amount of vegetation and caused chemical pollution [14,15]. The development of agriculture has destroyed a large part of the original vegetation, such as forests [16,17].…”

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The Long-Term Relationship between Population Growth and Vegetation Cover: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Panel Data of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China

Kuang

Huang

et al. 2013

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It is generally believed that there is an inverse relationship between population growth and vegetation cover. However, reports about vegetation protection and reforestation around the World have been continuously increasing in recent decades, which seems to indicate that this relationship may not be true. In this paper, we have taken 21 cities in Guangdong Province, China as the study area to test the long-term relationship between population growth and vegetation cover, using an AVHRR NDVI data set and the panel cointegrated regression method. The results show that there is a long-term inverted N-shaped curve relationship between population growth and vegetation cover in the region where there are frequent human activities and the influence of climate change on vegetation cover changes is relatively small. The two turning points of the inverted N-shaped curve for the case of Guangdong Province correspond to 2,200 persons·km−2 and 3,820 persons·km−2, and they can provide a reference range for similar regions of the World. It also states that the population urbanization may have a negative impact on the vegetation cover at the early stage, but have a positive impact at the later stage. In addition, the Panel Error Correction Model (PECM) is used to investigate the causality direction between population growth and vegetation cover. The results show that not only will the consuming destruction effect and planting construction effect induced by the population growth have a great impact on vegetation cover changes, but vegetation cover changes in turn will also affect the population growth in the long term.

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The Long-Term Relationship between Population Growth and Vegetation Cover: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Panel Data of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China

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Huang

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“…Any research of a former water reservoir located under recent buildings is rare (e.g. Hellwig, 1997;Sasaki & Takahara, 2011;Starec et al, 2012). Within the area of Prague, the only investigated wet sediments of more or less natural origin were those of the so-called Old Town defence system moat (Beneš et al, 2002) and the alluvial sediments of the Vltava River backwaters (Kozáková & Pokorný, 2007;Č ulíková 2010).…”

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The oldest Czech fishpond discovered? An interdisciplinary approach to reconstruction of local vegetation in mediaeval Prague suburbs

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Wet sediments of a former water reservoir were discovered during an archaeological rescue excavation. Vegetation and environmental changes taking place in the mediaeval suburbs of Prague, Czech Republic, from the tenth to the middle of the fourteenth century were investigated. The origin and function of the water reservoir was revealed using a multi-proxy approach that combined the results of macrofossil, pollen, diatom, antracological, archaeo-zoological and sedimentological analyses. Gradual changes of the surrounding vegetation were documented. Field indicators increased in time, whereas proportions of broadleaf trees and shrubs decreased; proportions of ruderal plants increased continually. A gradual decline of semi-natural hygrophilous vegetation was accompanied by an inverse tendency in trampled vegetation. All these trends indicate an intensification of human activity around the pool. A similar intensification of anthropogenic influence is clearly visible in the development of the aquatic environment. According to the diatom composition, the base of the profile is the result of sedimentation in considerably oligotrophic conditions. A successive deterioration of water quality was documented by various organisms (diatoms, green algae, water macrophyta, fishes and intestinal parasites). The high content of dissolved nutrients, probably connected with anoxia, could have caused the disappearance of both diatoms and fishes.

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“…This goal is very challenging, at times quite impossible to fully achieve, especially when the plants in the natural vegetation are the same plants used in the site, as often is the case in prehistory. But in the last years, the number of investigations tackling this issue by contemporarily considering both macro-and microremains in archaeological contexts are increasing (Jeraj, 2002;Mariotti Lippi et al, 2003, 2008cMercuri et al, , 2007Delhon et al, 2008;Jeraj et al, 2009;Allevato et al, 2010;Breitenlechner et al, 2010;Sadori et al, 2010a,b;Sasaki and Takahara, 2011;Bosi et al, 2011). This "new" archaeobotanical research strategy allows producing multiple types of records, and by crossing these different sources more light is shed on the palaeoethnobotanical significance of some plant remains as well as on palaeovegetational reconstruction.…”

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Interpretative scenarios emerging from plant micro- and macroremains in the Iron Age site of Salut, Sultanate of Oman

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Condoluci

Giachi³

et al. 2011

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Late Holocene human impact on the vegetation around Mizorogaike Pond in northern Kyoto Basin, Japan: a comparison of pollen and charcoal records with archaeological and historical data

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

The Long-Term Relationship between Population Growth and Vegetation Cover: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Panel Data of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China

The Long-Term Relationship between Population Growth and Vegetation Cover: An Empirical Analysis Based on the Panel Data of 21 Cities in Guangdong Province, China

The oldest Czech fishpond discovered? An interdisciplinary approach to reconstruction of local vegetation in mediaeval Prague suburbs

Interpretative scenarios emerging from plant micro- and macroremains in the Iron Age site of Salut, Sultanate of Oman

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