GC11E:
Dating the Anthropocene: Early Land Use and Earth System Change I Posters


Session ID#: 8202

Session Description:
Major advances in quantitative global reconstruction of prehistoric land use and land cover changes are required to understand the role of early land use in transforming Earth system processes. Adequate incorporation of anthropogenic land use and land cover change in global and regional climate models remains one of the major priorities in climate modelling. Early land use and land cover scenarios show very large differences; improved global historical reconstructions are essential to advancing Earth system science and efforts to date the emergence of the Anthropocene. Further, ecological science and conservation are in need of more robust empirical baselines for the timing of human alterations. This session encourages contributions from paleo-ecologists, historians, archaeologists and modellers towards the goal of accelerating collaborative interdisciplinary knowledge generation to fully describe the global history of anthropogenic land use and land cover change from its first beginnings.
Primary Convener:  Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Kees Klein Goldewijk, Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht, Netherlands and John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States
Chairs:  Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States and Jack Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Erle C Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Geography & Environmental Systems, Baltimore, MD, United States
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, Earth and Planetary Surface Processes, and Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1934 International collaboration [INFORMATICS]
1980 Spatial analysis and representation [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Changing NPP consumption patterns in the Holocene: from Megafauna “liberated” NPP to “ecological bankruptcy” (60549)
Chris Doughty, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, United States
Estimating historical cropland distribution over the past 2220 years in China (67773)
Chi Fai Wong1, Jun Yan2 and Xingang Fan2, (1)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Geography and Environmental Resources, Carbondale, IL, United States, (2)Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States
Vegetation and Pollen signals of the Anthropocene: Changing signals, changing scales (85648)
Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States, John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States, Ellen R Kujawa, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Andria Dawson, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
Climate change and early human land-use in a biodiversity hotspot, the Afromontane region (68322)
Sarah Ivory, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, James M Russell, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, Dov F Sax, Brown University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Providence, RI, United States and Regan Early, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Land Use and Regional Climate in Eastern China over the Past 300 Years (69452)
Xing Chen, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Speleothem isotopic evidence for rapid human-induced expansion of grasslands in Madagascar at 890 CE (78779)
Stephen J Burns1, Laurie Godfrey2, Peterson Faina3, David McGee4, Benjamin F Hardt5, Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana3 and Jeannot Randrianasy6, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Anthropology, Amherst, United States, (3)Université D’Antananarivo, Bassins Sédimentaires, Evolution, Conservation, Antananarivo, Madagascar, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (5)USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States, (6)University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
A High-Resolution Reconstruction of Late Holocene Environmental Change from Laguna Ek’Naab, Northern Holmul Region, Peten, Guatemala (80520)
Lysanna Anderson1, David Wahl1 and Francisco Estrada-Belli2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Tulane University, Department of Anthropology, New Orleans, LA, United States
Declining Snow Cover Reduces Radiative Cooling from Historic Land Use Change in the Western Great Lakes Region (82361)
Bethany Blakely, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, Adrian V Rocha, University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Jason S McLachlan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Estimation of Anthropogenic Conversion of Holocene Wetland Cover. (84500)
Etienne Fluet-Chouinard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Earth System Science Division, Richland, WA, United States, Peter B. McIntyre, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Bernhard Lehner, McGill University, Department of Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada and Jed O Kaplan, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland
Effects of heterogeneous wind fields and vegetation composition on modeled estimates of pollen source area (84678)
Kevin D Burke, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States, Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States, John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States and Tracey Holloway, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Tree-Ring Dating of the Reshui-1 Tomb in Dulan County, Qinghai Province, North-west China (86263)
Mingqi LI1, Shao Xuemei1, Zhi-Yong Yin2 and Xingguo Xu3, (1)Key Lab of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Environmental and Ocean Sciences, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Xining, China
Exploring Geochemical Markers of the Anthropocene in River Sediments: Southern New England  (86393)
Jacky Tran, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, United States

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