Quantification of temperature and precipitation changes in northern China during the “5000-year” Chinese History

C Zhang, C Zhao, A Zhou, H Zhang, W Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-quality paleoclimate reconstructions can provide crucial climate context to test the
hypothesis of climatic impact on historical culture changes. Here we report high-resolution …

Sedimentary records of human activities in China over the past two millennia and implications for the Anthropocene: A review

H Jiang, Y Han, M Guo, X Gong - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Human activities have profoundly transformed the natural environment and the Earth
system, leading to the concept of the Anthropocene. This paper summarizes the effects of …

Human disturbances dominated the unprecedentedly high frequency of Yellow River flood over the last millennium

SY Yu, WJ Li, L Zhou, X Yu, Q Zhang, Z Shen - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
A warming climate may increase flood hazard through boosting the global hydrological
cycle. However, human impact through modifications to the river and its catchment is not …

[HTML][HTML] 大兴安岭阿尔山天池沉积物中正构烷烃记录揭示的全新世古气候变化

冷程程, 赵成, 崔巧玉, 张灿, 孙晓双, 闫天龙, 赵艳 - 第四纪研究, 2021 - html.rhhz.net
我国东北地区地处东亚季风北缘, 在高, 低纬过程的共同影响下, 区域气候和环境变化较为复杂.
文章选取大兴安岭中段的阿尔山天池长2.5 m 的全新世以来的湖泊沉积岩芯(ACL17C) …

Characterization of lacustrine harmful algal blooms using multiple biomarkers: Historical processes, driving synergy, and ecological shifts

Q Lin, K Zhang, S McGowan, S Huang, Q Xue, E Capo… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) producing toxic metabolites are increasingly threatening
environmental and human health worldwide. Unfortunately, long-term process and …

Anthropogenic mountain forest degradation and soil erosion recorded in the sediments of Mayinghai Lake in northern China

X Huang, X Ren, X Chen, J Zhang, X Zhang, Z Shen… - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
The late Holocene vegetation of the Loess Plateau in China was influenced by both climate
change and human activities, however, details of how humans modified the vegetation are …

Double‐edged effects of anthropogenic activities on lake ecological dynamics in northern China: Evidence from palaeolimnology and ecosystem modelling

C Zhang, X Kong, B Xue, C Zhao… - Freshwater …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and anthropogenic activities mutually degraded global lake ecosystems
during the Anthropocene. Nutrient mitigation via catchment management has been a …

Lake eutrophication in northeast China induced by the recession of the East Asian summer monsoon

L Chen, J Zhao, Z Zhang, Z Shen, W Dong, R Ma… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lakes are one of the most important freshwater resources on Earth and they provide a wide
range of ecosystem services. However, due to rapid economic development and the …

Human impacts overwhelmed climate as the dominant factor controlling lacustrine organic matter accumulation in Erhai Lake 2000 years ago, Southwest China

D Lin, E Zhang, E Liu, W Sun, R Wang, X Meng… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate and human activity are two important factors in regulating organic matter (OM)
accumulation in the lake environment. However, when and how anthropogenic impacts …

A comparison of n-alkane contents in sediments of five lakes from contrasting environments

Y Zhang, J Yu, Y Su, Y Du, Z Liu - Organic Geochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
In paleolimnology studies, the trajectories of n-alkane abundances and distributions in dated
sediments are widely used indicators of changing environmental and ecological status in the …