Human-Environment Interactions: Learning From the Past

This special issue contains eight papers on PAGES Focus 4 (formerly 5) on past ecosystem processes and human–environment interactions. It emerged from a 2005 PAGES Focus 5 meeting.

> Using diatoms to assess the impacts of prehistoric, pre-industrial and modern land-use on Danish lakes [p.17]
Bradshaw EG, Nielsen AB & Anderson NJ

> Human–environment interactions: learning from the past [p.1]
Dearing J, Battarbee R, Dikau R, Larocque I & Oldfield F

> Sequential impacts of Polynesian and European settlement on vegetation and environmental processes recorded in sediments at Whangapoua Estuary, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand [p.25]
Ogden J, Deng Y, Horrocks M, Nichol S & Anderson S

> Holocene fire history from the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, New South Wales, Australia: the climate, humans and fire nexus [p.41]
Black MP & Mooney SD

> Historical deforestation as a cause of alluviation in small valleys, subcarpathian loess plateau, Poland [p.52]
Klimek K, Lanczont M & Nogaj-Chachaj J

> Soil erosion response to climatic change and human activity during the Quaternary on the Loess Plateau, China [p.62]
He X, Zhou J, Zhang X & Tang K

> Climate and human impact on lowland lake sedimentation in Central Coastal California: the record from c. 650 ad to the present [p.71]
Plater AJ, Boyle JF, Mayers C, Turner SD & Stroud RW

> Land cover change and abrupt environmental impacts on Javan volcanoes, Indonesia: a long-term perspective on recent events [p.86]
Lavigne F & Gunnell Y

> Past and future perspectives upon landscape instability in Cumbria, northwest England [p.101]
Chiverrell RC

> Human–environment interactions: towards synthesis and simulation [p.115]
Dearing J, Battarbee R, Dikau R, Larocque I & Oldfield F