全新世巢湖沉积物炭屑记录的火环境变化

通过对巢湖湖泊沉积岩芯不同粒级炭屑浓度和磁化率等指标变化的研究,揭示了全新世以来的区域火环境变化及人类活动影响。结果表明：① 全新世早期,气候由寒冷干旱向温暖湿润过渡,但仍较为干旱,炭屑浓度也相对略高,火活动比较频繁,地方性和区域性火时有发生;② 全新世中期是最温暖湿润的适宜期,炭屑浓度出现全新世以来的低值,火活动微弱,但在文化兴盛时期炭屑浓度出现峰值,则归因于人类活动的影响;③ 全新世晚期,在气候趋于凉干的环境背景下,人类活动的增强更加剧了火活动的频率和强度,炭屑浓度大幅增加;④ 近200 a炭屑浓度的降低可能与湖区附近已没有足够生物量引起火灾有关。     

新疆伊犁河谷晚全新世风沙沉积粒度旋回与气候变化

对新疆伊犁河谷可克达拉剖面(TKP)晚全新世沉积粒度参数及其气候意义分析结果表明:总体为植被较好、输沙势较弱的沉积环境。可以划分为5个气候变化阶段:3.71~3.06 ka B.P.风力由强到弱,气候暖由干到凉湿;3.06~2.78 ka B.P.风力很强、气候暖干;2.78~2.10 ka B.P.风力较弱,气候湿润;2.10~0.5 ka B.P.前期风力振荡频繁,气候较湿润;后期风力减弱、气候冷湿、成壤作用较强;0.50 ka B.P.以来,以相对冷湿为主,最近100 a来风力加强、气候趋于暖干。各阶段起止与全球气候变化基本一致,但受西风环流传递北高纬大西洋区域气候变化的影响,各气候期水热组合呈现典型西风带模式特征。     

赤峰地区孢粉分析与先人生活环境初探

从考古孢粉学角度，根据赤峰七锅山剖面孢粉分析，结合赤峰地区古文化遗址的考古资料，探讨了赤峰地区8000aB.P.以来的先人生活环境，以及人类活动和自然环境演变的过程之间的相互关系，结果表明：8400－6200aB.P. 为温暖湿润的草原气候，先人既狩猎捕鱼，也种植作物和放牧；6200－4000aB.P,，随着森林的破坏，环境逐渐恶劣，农业水平下降；4000－2500aB.P.植被以草原为主，气候温干，先人以旱作农业为主，2500aB.P.至现在，植被为典型的蒿草草原，气候温和偏干，农业和畜牧业相对发展，人类活动加剧。     

昆仑山阿什库勒盆地15000年以来古环境演化的初步研究

根据昆仑山阿什库勒盆地几个露头湖相沉积剖面的孢粉分析结果和~(14)C年龄数据,揭示出15 000年以来的气候、植被、环境发展曾经历了5个阶段。较低温度出现在13 000aB.P.前后,当时湖面较低,盆地边缘冰水平原区出现地面切割。大约在11 000 aB.P.前后,气候转暖,冰川大量消融,湖面上升,沉积速度加快,进入全新世。8 000 aB.P.前后的中全新世,曾出现高潮面期,但高温期却出现在后,故盆地内高潮面期与高温期并不同步。全新世后期,气候进一步转向干暖,蒸发增加,湖面逐渐缩小,生态环境日趋向荒漠草原发展。     

豫西渑池盆地湖泊沉积特征与古环境

对渑池盆地池底村古湖泊沉积剖面进行连续采样,在粒度组成和有机碳含量分析的基础上,结合¹⁴C年代测定(校正为日历年龄),重建了盆地区末次冰盛期以来的气候环境演化进程:19543~9240cal.aB.P.,气候比较干燥,古湖泊尚未形成;9240~8039cal.aB.P.,气候由干冷向暖湿化方向转变,古湖泊开始形成;8039~3473cal.aB.P.期间,气候温暖湿润,湖泊水位最高;3439~2931cal.aB.P.期间,气候波动剧烈,总体上气候较前一段干旱,湖泊水位下降;2931~2423cal.aB.P.期间,气候干旱,古湖泊干涸。盆地区的人类文化演进对气候环境变化的响应十分明显,二者之间存在一定的耦合关系。     

青藏高原东北缘武山盆地中中新世炭屑记录及其古气候意义

火是生态系统中的重要因子,是反映古气候和环境变化的重要标志。因此,重建火活动历史可以帮助我们理解过去的气候变化和火活动的机制,但是目前在全球范围内十分缺少对中新世时期高分辨率的火活动记录的研究。炭屑已被证明是重建火活动历史的有效替代性指标,基于青藏高原东北缘武山盆地中中新世时期高分辨率的炭屑记录,重建了研究区天然火活动历史,结合现有资料,探讨了火-植被-气候之间的关系以及研究区火活动对全球变化的响应。结果表明：（1） 15.30~13.60 Ma时期,炭屑总浓度变化范围为59~4324粒·g^-1,平均浓度为835粒·g^-1。炭屑形状以次圆形为主,且几乎所有的炭屑粒径都小于50 μm,反映出研究区天然火活动是以乔木植物燃烧的森林火活动为主,主要是区域性火活动。根据炭屑总浓度的变化趋势,将研究区天然火活动历史分为2个主要阶段。阶段Ⅰ（15.30~14.00 Ma）：炭屑总浓度逐步增加,平均浓度为866粒·g^-1。其中,阶段Ⅰ又可以细分为3个次要阶段,Ⅰa（15.30~14.38 Ma）：炭屑总浓度最低,平均浓度为693粒·g^-1;Ⅰb（14.38~14.20 Ma）：炭屑总浓度快速减少,平均浓度为1140粒·g^-1;Ⅰc（14.20~14.00 Ma）：炭屑总浓度急剧增加,平均浓度为988粒·g^-1。阶段Ⅱ（14.00~13.60 Ma）：炭屑总浓度急剧减少,平均浓度为777粒·g^-1。（2） 孢粉数据重建的研究区的植被和气候变化结果表明,15.30~14.38 Ma时期为开阔的森林植被,湿度较低;14.38~14.00 Ma时期乔木增加,湿度增加;14.00~13.60 Ma时期乔木属种显著减少,湿度降低。（3） 经过对比分析,炭屑总浓度变化趋势与乔木类花粉百分比趋势相近,次圆形炭屑浓度趋势与阔叶类植物花粉的百分比趋势显著正相关,认为武山盆地中中新世的天然火活动与森林植被的盖度（尤其是阔叶林的盖度）有较强联系,在气候温暖湿润的时期,炭屑浓度高。此外,通过对比炭屑总浓度趋势和深海底栖有孔虫氧同位素的变化,可以推测,全球温度变化可能通过影响研究区植被变化来对天然火活动产生重要影响。     

黄土高原东西部全新世剖面炭屑记录的火环境变化

对黄土高原东、西部全新世3个典型黄土—土壤剖面磁化率和炭屑浓度进行分析和对比研究,探讨该区域剖面中炭屑含量变化及其所记录的火环境变化特征。马兰黄土堆积时期,气候干旱而不稳定,地方性和区域性火频繁发生,炭屑含量较高;全新世早期,气候由冷干向温湿过渡,但仍较干旱,炭屑含量相应也较高;全新世中期是全新世最为温暖湿润的时期,炭屑含量出现全新世时期的最低值,但在夏商文化时期和庙底沟文化时期炭屑含量出现峰值,则是人类活动的结果;全新世晚期,在干旱的气候条件下,人类活动加速了火的频率和强度,炭屑含量大幅度增加。在全新世不同时期,黄土高原东、西部的炭屑含量存在一定差异,黄土高原东部火活动较为微弱,而西部火活动相对频繁,这是火环境条件区域差异性的表现。     

撒哈拉沙漠东北部全新世气候环境与人类活动

现代极端干旱的撒哈拉沙漠东北部,在12000 aB.P.前出现了代表湿润气候记录的湖相沉积;全新世以来,在9900~2400 aB.P.形成了大面积的连续湖泊,并在9800~6450 aB.P.达到鼎盛时期。在6000 aB.P.~3600 aB.P.前,湖泊演化进入波动期,反映了该时期气候环境周期性的变动并具600年的准周期。撒哈拉沙漠东北全新世湿润时期,是该区古人类发展与进步、繁演与分化的时期;也是自然演变史上一个十分重要的时期,其中强烈的风化作用和碎屑物质积累为今日撒哈拉沙漠的形成奠定了物质基础。     

小兴安岭东部9.0 ka B.P.以来沼泽发育与古环境演变研究

对迄今为止所发现的小兴安岭东部全新世最早发育的沼泽剖面进行14 C测年、孢粉分析、粘土矿物分析、泥炭植物残体鉴定 ,根据获得的信息 ,综合分析 ,相互印证 ,研究了 9.0kaB .P .以来沼泽发育、植被演替、气候变化与古地理环境演变过程。结果表明 ,本区植被演替经历五个阶段 ,即针叶林 (90 0 0aB .P .～ 830 0aB .P .)→针阔混交林 (830 0aB .P .～ 6 80 0aB .P .)→以栎、榆、胡桃为主阔叶林 (6 80 0aB .P .～ 30 5 0aB .P .)→以桦为主阔叶林 (30 5 0aB .P .～ 2 35 0aB .P .)→以松为主的针阔混交林 (2 35 0aB .P .～ 0aB .P .)。与之相对应 ,气候变化序列为 :寒冷较湿→温和略湿→温暖湿润→温凉较湿→冷凉湿润 ;沼泽发育也相应地可划分为五个时期 :沼泽孕育期 ,富营养沼泽萌发期 ,富营养沼泽旺盛发育期和中营养沼泽孕育期 ,沼泽进一步扩大发育期和中营养沼泽形成期 ,沼泽继续扩大发育期和贫营养沼泽形成期。沼泽最早开始发育始于年代为 70 95± 90aB .P .。汤洪岭 12支线沼泽剖面可作为该区全新统的标准剖面     

南亚热带全新世火灾记录的气候变化及人类影响

选取华南沿海丘陵山地3个南亚热带不同地点及海拔的钻孔岩芯进行了微炭屑统计分析,结合孢粉分析结果,揭示全新世以来的植被变化与火灾历史,并探讨火灾事件与季风变化和人类活动的关系。结果表明：从8 000―3 500 cal. a B.P.,3个钻孔的微炭屑浓度均极低,证明该时段森林火灾频率很低,同时高木本含量的孢粉分析结果反映了亚热带阔叶林的繁盛,并指示全新世大暖期湿润和降雨丰沛的气候特征。加上早中全新世南方人口稀少,无“刀耕火种”等大面积农业活动。从3 500 cal. a B.P.开始,多个钻孔显示出微炭屑含量的迅速增加并持续高值,这与华南地区夏季风减弱导致降雨减少、气候变干,以及华南地区人类历史从新石器晚期进入商周时代的转折期密切相关。同时,孢粉指示的阔叶类木本植物含量显著减少,表明火灾对森林破坏逐渐严重。2 000 cal. a B.P.以后,人口出现第一次增长高峰,考古出土的器物证明牛耕和铁器农具开始广泛使用,农业快速发展。这一时期低海拔的GY1和中海拔的LTY钻孔微碳屑含量维持高值,禾本科以及芒萁属等次生植物孢粉含量快速增加。这反映了秦或南越国以后在华南地区较低海拔山地和平原农业活动得到迅速发展。此外,位于海拔1 600 m以上的钻孔GT-2的微碳屑记录显示：高海拔山区在800 cal. a B.P.以后才开始出现频繁的森林火灾,反映人类农业活动和人口增加扩张到高海拔山区。     

Long-Term Fire Trends in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from Sedimentary Charcoal: A Comparison of Three Records

Charcoal preserved in lake sediments is commonly used to reconstruct past trends in fire occurrence. However, interpretation of the charcoal record is often complicated, as changes in charcoal influx could represent natural shifts in fire regimes associated with changes in climate, changes in vegetation, or changes in patterns of anthropogenic burning. Here we examine sedimentary charcoal records from three lakes on the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico: Laguna Saladilla in the Dominican Republic, Lake Miragoane in Haiti, and Laguna Tortuguero in Puerto Rico. All records are based on microscopic charcoal fragments quantified from pollen slides and cover the last 7,000 or more years of the Holocene. We compare charcoal influx values to archeological and palynological evidence of human activity and explore the role of increasing winter insolation over the Holocene in driving increased charcoal deposition beginning ca. 6,000–5,000 cal yr BP. An increase in charcoal influx at Laguna Tortuguero at ca. 5,200 cal yr BP, previously interpreted as a signal of human settlement predating archeological evidence, may instead reflect insolation-driven shifts in winter drying that led to more frequent and possibly more intense natural fires. Decreased charcoal influx around 3,200 cal yr BP may signal human modification of the environment that altered fire frequency and/or intensity. Comparing the records from these three lowland Caribbean sites highlights possible intervals of synchronous, climate-driven burning as distinct from more localized anthropogenic burning.     

Paleoecology and its application to fire and vegetation management in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia

High-resolution analysis of macroscopic charcoal and pollen ratios were used to reconstruct a 10,000 yr history of fire and vegetation change around Dog Lake, now in the Montane Spruce biogeoclimatic zone of southeastern British Columbia. Lake sediment charcoal records suggest that fire was more frequent in the early Holocene from 10,000 to 8200 calendar yrs BP, when climate was warmer and drier than today and forest fuels were limited. Fire frequency increased and reached its maximum during the early to mid-Holocene from 8200 to 4000 calendar yrs BP, corresponding to the dry and warm Hypsithermal period in the Rocky Mountains. During the Hypsithermal period forests around Dog Lake were dominated by Pseudotsuga/Larix,Pinus and open meadows of Poaceae that were subject to frequent fire. From 4000 calendar yrs BP to present, fires became less frequent with the onset of cooler and wetter Neoglacial climate and an increase in wet-closed Picea and Abies forests in the valley. Changes in fire frequency are supported by dry-open/wet-closed pollen ratio data indicating that forest type and disturbance regimes vary with changing climate. The fire frequency and forest cover reconstructions from Dog Lake are a first attempt at defining a range of natural variability for Montane Spruce forests in southeastern British Columbia. Fire and vegetation management in Kootenay National Park can now use this century to millennial-scale range of variability to define the context of current forest conditions and potential changes under global warming scenarios.     

Holocene Vegetation Dynamics, Fire History, Lake Level and Climate Change in the Kootenay Valley, Southeastern British Columbia, Canada

The environmental history of the Kootenay Valley in the southern Canadian Rockies was reconstructed using lake sediment from Dog Lake, British Columbia, and compared to other paleoenvironmental studies in the region to understand how vegetation dynamics and fire regimes responded to climate change during the Holocene. A pollen-based vegetation reconstruction indicates five periods of vegetation change. At 10,300 cal yr B.P. Pinus-Juniperus parkland colonized the valley and by 7600 cal yr B.P. was replaced by mixed stands of Pinus, Picea and Pseudotsuga/Larix. Fire frequencies increased to their Holocene maximums during the 8200–4000 cal yr B.P. period. From 5500–4500 cal yr B.P. Pseudotsuga/Larix reached its maximum extent in the Kootenay Valley under a more frequent fire regime. At 5000 cal yr B.P. Picea and Abies began to expand in the area and by 4500 cal yr B.P. the forest shifted to a closed montane spruce forest type with dramatically reduced fire frequency. The shift to less frequent forest fires after 4500 cal yr B.P., along with a moisterPicea – dominated closed forest, corresponds to Neoglacial advances in the Canadian Rockies and Coast Mountains. Fire intervals after 4000 cal yr B.P. are significantly longer than the shorter fire intervals of the early to mid Holocene. A return to drier, more open forest condition occurs between 2400–1200 cal yr B.P. with a slight increase in fire activity and summer drought events. Lower lake levels inferred by charophyte accumulation rates during the 2400–1200 cal yr B.P. interval support this moisture regime shift. An abrupt shift toPicea dominated forest occurred from 1200–1000 cal yr B.P. and a final period of wet-closed forest cover reaches its maximum extent from 700–150 cal yr B.P. that appears to be a response to Little Ice Age cooling. Present forests are within their natural range of variability but are predicted to shift again to a drier more open structure with increased Pseudotsuga/Larix cover. More frequent stand replacing fires and increased area burned likely will accompany this change due to continued global warming.     

13 ka BP 以来黄土高原西部的植被与环境演化

通过对黄土高原西部三个剖面的孢粉记录分析, 重建了该区13 ka BP 以来详细的植被 与气候演化序列。结果表明, 12.1 ka BP 以前, 研究区植被以干草原为主, 气候寒冷干燥。 12.1~9.8 ka BP 植被变化显著。期间出现两次显著的湿润期, 分别为12.1~11.4 ka BP、 11.2~11.0 ka BP, 可与博令暖期和阿勒罗得暖期对比; 两次持续时间和强度明显不同的干旱 期出现在11.4~11.2 ka BP 和11.0~9.8 ka BP, 可分别与中仙女木事件和新仙女木事件对比。 经过短暂的快速变湿后, 9.6~7.6 ka BP 研究区植被以疏林草原为主, 气候波动频繁但总体温 和偏干。7.6~4.0 ka BP 森林和森林草原植被出现, 气候温暖湿润。其中6.6~5.8 ka BP 温带落 叶阔叶林发育, 为研究区全新世最适宜期。自4.0 ka BP 以来研究区草原和荒漠草原交替出 现, 气候在总体干冷的环境下存在次一级的干湿波动。     

Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana

Foy Lake in northwestern Montana provides a record of annual-to-decadal-scale landscape change. Sedimentary charcoal and pollen analyses were used to document fire and vegetation changes over the last 3800 years, which were then compared to similar records from AD 1880 to 2000. The long-term record at Foy Lake suggests shifts between forest and steppe as well as changes in fire regime that are likely the result of climate change. Fire activity (inferred from the frequency of charcoal peaks) averaged 18 fire episodes/1000 years from 3800 to 2125 cal year BP, and increased from 16 fire episodes/1000 years at 2125 cal year BP to 22 episodes/1000 years at 750 cal year BP, a period when the pollen data suggest that steppe vegetation yielded to increasing patches of forest cover. Between 2125 and 750 cal year BP, increased forest cover produced more background charcoal than before and after this period, when vegetation was dominated by steppe. Between 750 and 75 cal year BP steppe has expanded and fire episode frequency averaged 33 episodes/1000 years, increasing to a maximum of 40 episodes/1000 years at ca. 300 cal year BP and then decreasing to present levels. Since AD 1880, the pollen record indicates an increase in shrubs and grasses from AD 1895 to 1960 as a result of vegetation changes associated with timber harvesting and livestock grazing. No fires have been documented in the Foy Lake watershed since AD 1880. Charcoal from the extralocal fires of AD 1910, burning over 4,111,249 ha in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, however, is present in Foy Lake. Between AD 1970 and 2000, increased arboreal pollen in the record is consistent with observations that the forest has become more closed. The activities of Euro–Americans have led to a decline in forest cover between AD 1880 and 1970, followed by a recent increase as trees are now growing in areas previously occupied by steppe. Euro–Americans are likely the cause of a reduction in fire activity in watershed since AD 1880.     

13kaBP以来黄土高原西部的植被与环境演化(英文)

Pollen records from the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed a detailed history of vegetation variation and associated climate changes during the last 13.0 ka BP.Before 12.1 ka BP,steppe or desert-steppe vegetation dominated landscape then was replaced by a coniferous forest under a generally wet climate(12.1-11.0 ka BP).The vegetation was deteriorated into steppe landscape and further into a desert-steppe landscape between 11.0 and 9.8 ka BP.After a brief episode of a cool and wet climate(9.8-9.6 ka BP),a relati...     

Vegetation and environmental changes in western Chinese Loess Plateau since 13.0 ka BP

Pollen records from the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed a detailed history of vegetation variation and associated climate changes during the last 13.0 ka BP. Before 12.1 ka BP, steppe or desert-steppe vegetation dominated landscape then was replaced by a coniferous forest under a generally wet climate (12.1–11.0 ka BP). The vegetation was deteriorated into steppe landscape and further into a desert-steppe landscape between 11.0 and 9.8 ka BP. After a brief episode of a cool and wet climate (9.8–9.6 ka BP), a relatively mild and dry condition prevailed during the early Holocene (9.6–7.6 ka BP). The most favourable climate of warm and humid period occurred during mid-Holocene (7.6–~4.0 ka BP) marked by forest-steppe landscape and vegetation alternatively changed between steppe and desert- steppe from ~4.0 to ~1.0 ka BP.     

全新世中期毛乌素沙地炭屑记录与火灾历史

炭屑是探索自然火和人类用火及其驱动机制的重要指标。作者试图通过孢粉提取法获得毛乌素沙地东缘锦界剖面全新世中期(7.5~4.6 ka)的炭屑记录, 用来揭示该地区炭屑变化特征和火灾历史, 并探讨其与气候环境变化之间的关系。结果表明:在7.5~4.6 ka期间炭屑浓度变化范围为340～17 420粒·g^-1, 平均为3 350粒·g^-1。剖面炭屑总浓度变化趋势曲线呈“弓形”, 即在7.2 ka以前炭屑浓度较低, 平均约为1840粒·g^-1 ;在7.2~6.6 ka浓度最高, 平均约为5 280粒·g^-1, 并在6.8 ka前后达到峰值17 400粒·g^-1 ;在6.6 ka之后浓度下降, 平均为1720粒·g^-1。同时, 炭屑粒径指标表明<50 μm的炭屑占主导,>100 μm的炭屑稀少。炭屑浓度主要反映火灾频率和强度, 炭屑粒径则反映火灾距离和范围, 即毛乌素沙地东部在全新世中期火灾活动相对频繁并在6.8 ka左右达到最大值, 同时炭屑物源较远, 主要为区域性火灾。锦界剖面的化学风化指数、地球化学元素和粒度变化特征表明该地区在7.5~4.6 ka气候条件整体较好, 湿度增加, 处于全新世适宜期, 并在7.2~6.6 ka达到最佳值, 这表明毛乌素沙地的火灾主要发生在气候最佳时期。结合毛乌素沙地及其邻区的孢粉资料推测, 该地区在全新世气候适宜期时植被相对茂盛, 为毛乌素沙地的火灾提供了丰富的可燃烧物, 可能是火灾增多的主要原因。