Climate change and large-scale human population collapses in the pre-industrial era

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 520-531

  Zhang, David D ^a   Lee, Harry F ^a   Wang, Cong ^b   Li, Baosheng ^c   Zhang, Jane ^d   Pei, Qing ^a   Chen, Jingan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WestEast Magazine ^*  (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land carrying capacity; Malthusian checks; Northern Hemisphere; Population collapses; Pre industrial era

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CARRYING CAPACITY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; MALTHUSIAN THEORY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958133104     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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