Climate And Human Impact On Vegetation In The Upper Part Of The Ussuri River Basin In Late Holocene, Russian Far East
https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-44
Abstract
Changes in vegetation in the southern Sikhote-Alin Mountains, which are in the upper reaches of the Ussuri R., are shown respond to minor climatic fluctuations over the past 5.4 ka. The largest mountain, Muta mire, chosen for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, is located within the main regional watershed. The studies include diatoms and pollen analyses. Chronology is based on radiocarbon dating and position of B-Tm tephra of the Millennium eruption of Baitoushan volcano. The cooling and warming reconstructed from the regional data correlate with global paleoclimatic events. The regional humidity changes notably along with the temperature fluctuations. Fire chronology was established and its significance for vegetation was estimated. Periods of frequent forest fires coincided with reduced moisture supply during cooling events. The analysis per formed revealed a considerable human impact on the vegetation in the 20th century.
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Supporting agencies: The authors are grateful to Yu.I. Bersenev for his help in the field studies, to N.P. Domra (FSC of Land Diversity FEB RAS, Vladivostok) for the sample preparation to pollen analysis. The work was performed with financial support from RFBR, grant 15-05-00171, and from research program “Far East”, FEB RAS, project 15–I–6–097.
About the Authors
Nadezhda G. Razjigaeva
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Larisa A. Ganzey
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Ludmila M. Mokhova
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Tatiana R. Makarova
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Ekaterina P. Kudryavtseva
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Alexander M. Panichev
Pacific Geographical Institute FEB RAS
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Russian Federation
Vladivostok.
Khikmat A. Arslanov
St.-Petersburg State University
Russian Federation
St.-Petersburg.
Russian Federation
St.-Petersburg.
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Razjigaeva N.G., Ganzey L.A., Mokhova L.M., Makarova T.R., Kudryavtseva E.P., Panichev A.M., Arslanov Kh.A. Climate And Human Impact On Vegetation In The Upper Part Of The Ussuri River Basin In Late Holocene, Russian Far East. GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY. 2019;12(2):162-172. https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2018-44
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