31 (1) Advancing past socio–environmental systems science
Humans, social elements, and natural processes interact with each other and the environment through time. Understanding interactions and feedback mechanisms in these so-called past socio–environmental systems helps society to adapt, build resilience and develop more sustainable practices. This special issue contains articles describing past socio-environmental systems (SES) at a range of timescales, highlighting the need for interdisciplinarity and collaboration for advancing in this field of paleoscience.
Access individual html and pdf articles below.
The full magazine is available in the following formats:
> High resolution pdf (33 MB)
> Low resolution pdf (7.4 MB)
Note: The figures in this magazine can be used freely, provided they are properly cited and the authors also agree. Original source data used in the figure should also be mentioned in the caption. Click on the figure in the HTML to access a high-res version.
Individual Articles
> Front Cover > Contents > News
Editorial
> Advancing past socio–environmental systems [p.3]
Xavier Benito, Giorgia Camperio, Ignacio A. Jara, Estelle Razanatsoa and Iván Hernández-Almeida
Science Highlights
> Archaeoecology: Using archaeological data to study ecosystems of the human past [p.4-5]
Stefani A. Crabtree
> Connecting paleoecology and art: A novel approach to recall socio–ecological memories in inhabited volcanic settings [p.6-7]
Catalina González-Arango
> Integration of proxies in human–environmental systems: Paleoecology, paleoclimatology, and archaeology [p.8-9]
Macarena M. Zarza, X. Benito, C. Flores, S.K. Mandal, A. Maldonado and S.Y. Maezumi
> Situating past societies in their environments: Emerging techniques [p.10-11]
Simon E. Connor
> Environmental history of the northern Maya Lowlands: Evidence from a karstic lake [p.12-13]
Alejandra Rodriguez-Abaunza and Alex Correa-Metrio
> Speleothems as a novel tool to elucidate human–fire–ecosystem dynamics in tropical Australian savanna [p.14-15]
Elena Argiriadis, R.F. Denniston, S. Ondei and D.M.J.S Bowman
> Pre-Columbian legacy and modern land use in the Bolivian Amazon [p.16-17]
Umberto Lombardo
> Interactions between past societies and environmental change in the Lake Titicaca region (tropical Andes) [p.18-19]
Christophe Delaere, S. Guédron and S.C. Fritz
> Past synchronies, asynchronies, and collations between naturally and anthropogenically driven changes in northern Chile [p.20-21]
Antonio Maldonado, C. Méndez and M. Uribe
> Human–environment interactions in south Asian watersheds over the last 100 years: A multi-disciplinary analysis of talavs [p.22-23]
Atreyee Bhattacharya, J.S Leonard-Pingel, S. Sarkar, G. Arora, R. Ray, A. Ambilili, A.V. Michelson, P.K. Mishra, M. Desimone, S. Chakraborty, P. Sabale, K. Bajaj, A. Bhattacharya, R. Balaji and A. Bazaz
> Paleoenvironmental change and human activity at Okomu National Park, Nigeria [p.24-25]
Emuobosa A. Orijemie, T.O. Ayelagbe, A.S. Diya, A.J. Ibirogb and E.T. Olaleye
> Newly discovered Plio-Pleistocene sites in west Mt. Kenya: Potential tropical high elevation refugia? [p.26-27]
Rahab N. Kinyanjui, A. Grossman, F. M. Kirera, V. Waweru, N.R. Malit, C. Omuombo, H. Mashaka L.N. Chege,F. Nderitu and R. Kinyua
> Insight into the 4.2 ka event records in northeast India: A global connection and the geological evidence [p.28-29]
Nivedita Mehrotra and Santosh K. Shah
> pSESYNTH project: Community mobilization for a multi-disciplinary paleo database of the Global South [p.30-31]
Charuta Kulkarni, I.A. Jara, M. Chevalier, A.A. Isa, K. Alinezhad, S.O. Brugger, M.M.E. Bunbury, C. Cordero-Oviedo, C. Courtney-Mustaphi, P. Echeverría-Galindo, T. Ensafi Moghaddam, V. Ferrara, F. Garcia-Rodriguez, P. Gitau, M. Hannaford, A. Herbert, A. Hernández, B. Jalali, D. K. Jha, R.N. Kinyanjui, G. Koren, H. Mackay, C.A. Mansilla, O. Margalef, S. Mukhopadhyay, O. Onafeso, P. Riris, A. Rodriguez-Abaunza, P. Rodríguez-Zorro, S. Saeidi, A. S. Ratnayake, C. Seitz, M. Spate, C. Vásquez and X. Benito
Fellowship Reports
> Interrogating the digital eye: Building capacity to analyze and interpret sedimentary charcoal records from African grassy biomes [p.32] > Paleoecology of mangroves along the Kenyan coast [p.33] > Phylogenetic diversity in space: A tool to evaluate the effect of paleoclimate on terrestrial biota [p.34] > Lake sedimentary DNA research: Extending the sedaDNA network across Latin America [p.35] > Fog-dependent forests in southern Atacama face threat from drought [p.36] > Dendrochronological potential of Tarara colorada (Platymiscium ulei Harms) in tropical dry forests of Bolivia [p.37]
Opinion
> Advice on how to organize an ECR workshop: Lessons learned during PASES 2022 [p.39]
Workshop reports
> The warm Pliocene: Bridging the geological data and modeling communities [p.40] > Numerical ecology and time series analysis of marine proxy data [p.41] > A synthesis of Cenozoic paleoceanographic proxies for seawater oxygenation [p.42] > Boron-CO2 workshop: Testing and extending the limits of the foraminiferal boron proxy for seawater pH and atmospheric CO2 reconstructions [p.43] > Human traces in lake sediments: Towards a database for extracting regional signals [p.44] > International Association of Limnogeologists - International Paleolimnology Association joint meeting: Lagos, Memorias del Territorio [p.45] > Ice Core Science at the three Poles [p.46] > Interglacials of the 41 kyr-world and the Middle Pleistocene Transition [p.47] > Early-career researchers embrace interdisciplinary paleosciences: The joint PAGES–INQUA workshop [p.48]
Data stewardship
> News from paleoscience data organizations [p.49] > The Peatland Paleo Proxy Database [p.50] > Advancing Last Interglacial and Holocene sea-level databases [p.51]
