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	Vegetation and climate change in the Beijing plain during the last million years and implications for Homo erectus occupation in North China
	Cai M. T.; Xu, D. N.; Wei, M. J.; Wang, J. P.; Pan, B. L.
	2015
关键词	Beijing Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus Pollen tibetan plateau loess plateau pliocene-pleistocene middle pleistocene sporopollen record african climate central-asia evolution environment east
英文摘要	Beijing is of great significance in human evolution studies. However, the lack of well-dated records of climate and environmental changes, which are frequently cited as important drivers of early human evolution, impede understanding of the evolution and dispersal of humans on the Beijing plain. A 150-m deep drill core was collected from the Changping District of the Beijing plain to reconstruct the changes in vegetation and climate during the Middle Pleistocene using pollen records. The results indicated that the tree genus Ulmus and the herb genus Artemisia were dominant in most of the samples from 0.96 to 0.61 Ma, reflecting an open forest steppe covering the Beijing region. Between 0.61 and 0.44 Ma, the vegetation communities shifted to an Artemisia-steppe as the tree cover declined. This was followed by a further shift in vegetation community structure to a Chenopodiaceae-Asteraceae steppe between 0.44 and 0.23 Ma, followed by the conversion to an Artemisia-Asteraceae steppe after 0.23 Ma. The pollen record revealed a long-term deterioration of the vegetation, which indicated an increasing trend of drying and cooling in the Beijing plain during the Middle Pleistocene. This coincides with the Homo erectus colonization of North China during this period. These findings provide supporting evidence that a shift in climate towards cold and dry conditions during the Middle Pleistocene may have directly benefited Homo erectus populations in open habitats of North China. This general pattern of declining vegetation cover in the study area is consistent with climatic and environmental patterns in other regions of North China, which were probably influenced by global cooling during the Middle Pleistocene. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
出处	Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
卷	432
页	29-35
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
ISSN号	0031-0182
内容类型	SCI/SSCI论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/38555]
专题	地理科学与资源研究所_历年回溯文献
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cai M. T.,Xu, D. N.,Wei, M. J.,et al. Vegetation and climate change in the Beijing plain during the last million years and implications for Homo erectus occupation in North China. 2015.

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