Session YSM 04
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Human-Climate-Ecosystem Interactions
Convenors
Fatima Abrantes, Janet Wilmshurst
Description
This session addresses the long-term interactions among past climate conditions, ecological processes and human activities. Emphasis lies in comparing regional-scale reconstructions of environmental and climatic processes using natural archives, documentary and instrumental data, with evidence of past human activity obtained from historical, paleoecological and archaeological records. The session explores regional integration of records and dynamic modeling to: (1) understand better the nature of climate-human-ecosystem interactions; (2) quantify the roles of different natural and anthropogenic drivers in forcing environmental change; (3) examine the feedbacks between anthropogenic activity and the natural system and; (4) provide integrated datasets for model development and data-model comparisons.
Talks and Posters
Talks
Tuesday, 12 February 10:30 - 11:00
Chair: Janet Wilmshurst
10:30 - 10:45
Regional integration of lake sediment and archaeological archives: Holocene climate variability andsocio-evolutionary pathways in Cappadocia, central Anatolia
Samantha Allcock, Neil Roberts
10:45 - 11:00
The impact of environmental change on past human societies in the Central Peloponnese (Greece)
Ingmar Unkel, Helmut Brückner, Walter Dörfler, Christian Heymann, Oliver Nelle, Arndt Schimmelmann, HelenZagana
Posters
Display: Monday, 11 February and Tuesday, 12 February
Author attendance: Tuesday 15:00 - 16:00
Chair: Janet Wilmshurst
Lake Geneva sediments as archive for past environmental changes and human activity since the last 3000 years
Katrina Kremer, Juan Pablo Corella, Stéphanie Girardclos
Late Holocene Hypolimnetic Anoxia in Lake Victoria at Napoleon Gulf as inferred from Geochemical Proxies
Morgan Andama, Julius B. Lejju, Casim Umba Tolo, Grace Kagoro-Rugunda, Immaculate Ssemmanda, Janet Ayebare
Late Pleistocene to Holocene climate and seasonality in North Africa from δ18O, δ13C and Mg/Ca analysis of marine and terrestrial mollusc shells (Haua Fteah, Libya)
Amy Prendergast, Rhiannon Stevens, Tamsin O'Connell, Chris Hunt, Graeme Barker
Recent climate change in West Africa and adaptation strategies proposed by rural population
Timothee Ourbak, Benoit Sarr
The Indian Monsoon anomaly at 4k; dynamical analogs and cultural implications
Max Berkelhammer, Ashish Sinha
