Shixiong Yang
Sun Yat-sen University
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The Holocene | 2012
Shixiong Yang; Zhuo Zheng; Kangyou Huang; Yongqiang Zong; Jianhua Wang; Qinghai Xu; Barry V. Rolett; Jie Li
Pollen from a series of surface soil samples collected along a transect spanning southeast China was investigated to better understand palynological signals of ancient agriculture and other human activity. The transect surface samples consist of pairs taken inside and outside rice paddy fields. Pollen assemblages from these samples are valuable as modern analogs of human-altered environments and rice agriculture. Our measurements of Poaceae pollen grains from inside the modern rice fields discovered that 34–40 µm is the statistically significant size range for identifying domesticated rice in fossil pollen samples. This conclusion is also based on a size comparison of raw and chemically treated modern pollen grains from the plants. Pollen measurements for local wild grasses show that most native weeds have pollen grains less than 30 µm in size. The modern analogs and our study of the influence of chemical treatment on pollen grain size made it possible to examine a sediment core from the Pearl River delta for evidence of anthropogenic influence, including rice farming. Pollen assemblages from around 2200 cal. yr BP are highly similar to those of our modern analogs representing disturbed landscapes outside modern rice fields. The pollen spectra reveal abrupt increases in Poaceae, Dicranopteris, Artemisia and Pinus indicative of rice farming and forest clearance, at around 2200 cal. yr BP. Major factors associated with this abrupt transition were the rapid formation of the deltaic flood plain and massive increases in the Pearl River delta area population during the Qin Dynasty.
Journal of Biogeography | 2014
Zhuo Zheng; Jinhui Wei; Kangyou Huang; Qinghai Xu; Houyuan Lu; Pavel E. Tarasov; Chuanxiu Luo; Celia Beaudouin; Yun Deng; Anding Pan; Yanwei Zheng; Yunli Luo; Takeshi Nakagawa; Chunhai Li; Shixiong Yang; Huanhuan Peng; Rachid Cheddadi
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2011
Zhuo Zheng; Shixiong Yang; Yun Deng; Kangyou Huang; Jinhui Wei; Serne Berne; Jean-Pierre Suc
Quaternary International | 2013
Jie Li; Zhuo Zheng; Kangyou Huang; Shixiong Yang; Brian M. Chase; Verushka Valsecchi; Matthieu Carré; Rachid Cheddadi
Quaternary International | 2016
Shixiong Yang; Jie Li; Kam-biu Liu; Rihui Li; Zhenhe Wen; Siyuan Ye; Sangheon Yi; Xiaohui Chen
Limnology and Oceanography | 2017
Jin Liu; Siyuan Ye; Edward A. Laws; Chunting Xue; Hongming Yuan; Xigui Ding; Guangming Zhao; Shixiong Yang; Lei He; Jin Wang; Shaofeng Pei; Yongbiao Wang; Qingyuan Lu
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2016
Shixiong Yang; Jie Li; Limi Mao; Kam-biu Liu; Maosheng Gao; Siyuan Ye; Sangheon Yi; Liangyong Zhou; Feifei Wang
Marine Micropaleontology | 2016
Feifei Wang; Maosheng Gao; Jian Liu; Shaofeng Pei; Chengfeng Li; Xi Mei; Shixiong Yang
Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2018
Jin Liu; Siyuan Ye; Hongming Yuan; Xigui Ding; Guangming Zhao; Shixiong Yang; Lei He; Jin Wang; Shaofeng Pei; Xiaoyu Huang
Marine Geology | 2016
Shixiong Yang; Kam-biu Liu; Sangheon Yi; Siyuan Ye; Jie Li; Hongming Yuan; Guangming Zhao; Shaofeng Pei; Lei He; Xigui Ding; Tae-Sop Cho
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