The Anthropocene and the landscape of Confucius: A historical ecology of landscape changes in northern and eastern China during the middle to late-Holocene

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1640-1650

  Rosen, Arlene M ^a   Lee, Jinok ^a   Li, Min ^b   Wright, Joshua ^c   Wright, Henry T ^d   Fang, Hui ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

agricultural intensification; Anthropocene; China; Han Period flooding; land use; mid Holocene

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ANTHROPOCENE; DEFORESTATION; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HILLSLOPE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE;

CHINA; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER BASIN;

EID: 84941897399     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615594241     Document Type: Article

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