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QUATERNARY RESEARCH
卷 99, 期 -, 页码 34-62出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2020.76
关键词
Africa; Archaeology; Ericaceae; Mires; Mountain; Palynology; Palustrine
资金
- National Geographic award
- European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Initial Training Network [606879]
- Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) project through the Sustainability and Resilience: Tackling Climate and Environmental Changes program - Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsradet), Sida, and Formas [2016-06355]
- Uppsala University
- Leverhulme Trust [IN-2014-022]
- Swiss Academy of Sciences
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
This study presents a 3000-year record of ecological changes on Kilimanjaro based on pollen, phytolith, and charcoal data from a wetland near the mountain. The results show a long-term pattern of forest dynamics and fire history, highlighting the importance of understanding historical ecological interactions in the context of current climate and land-use changes.
Kilimanjaro is experiencing the consequences of climate change and multiple land-use pressures. Few paleoenvironmental and archeological records exist to examine historical patterns of late Holocene ecosystem changes on Kilimanjaro. Here we present pollen, phytolith, and charcoal (>125 mu m) data from a palustrine sediment core that provide a 3000-year radiocarbon-dated record collected from a wetland near the headwaters of the Maua watershed in the alpine and ericaceous vegetation zones. From 3000 to 800 cal yr BP, the pollen, phytolith, and charcoal records show subtle variability in ericaceous and montane forest assemblages with apparent multicentennial secular variability and a long-term pattern of increasing Poaceae and charcoal. From 800 to 600 cal yr BP, montane forest taxa varied rapidly, Cyperaceae abundances increased, and charcoal remained distinctly low. From 600 yr cal BP to the present, woody taxa decreased, and ericaceous taxa and Poaceae dominated, with a conspicuously increased charcoal influx. Uphill wetland ecosystems are crucial for ecological and socioeconomic resilience on and surrounding the mountain. The results were synthesized with the existing paleoenvironmental and archaeological data to explore the high spatiotemporal complexity of Kilimanjaro and to understand historical human-environment interactions. These paleoenvironmental records create a long-term context for current climate, biodiversity, and land-use changes on and around Kilimanjaro.
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