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Human settlement and destructive activities disrupt the positive contribution of dust to plant biomass growth over the past 2000 years
Global and Planetary Change ( IF 4.0 ) Pub Date : 2024-11-19 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104640 Lin Chen, Youliang Huang, Menghan Qiu, Zhilun Li, Rui Yang, Mengjing Li, Huiling Sun, Lixiong Xiang, Shanjia Zhang, Xiaozhong Huang, Aifeng Zhou
Global and Planetary Change ( IF 4.0 ) Pub Date : 2024-11-19 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104640 Lin Chen, Youliang Huang, Menghan Qiu, Zhilun Li, Rui Yang, Mengjing Li, Huiling Sun, Lixiong Xiang, Shanjia Zhang, Xiaozhong Huang, Aifeng Zhou
The dual pressures of global warming and increased anthropogenic activities pose significant threats to terrestrial vegetation ecosystems. To better understand the impacts of climate change and human activities on terrestrial vegetation ecosystems, we reconstructed the changes in vegetation and plant biomass over the past 4500 years using n -alkane records from sediments of two alpine lakes in northwestern China: Xiannv Lake and Tianchi Lake. Our results indicate that changes in the spatial variability of plant biomass are not related to temperature and precipitation. Furthermore, CO2 fertilization and nutrient inputs from dust contributed to the observed changes in plant biomass. We also compared the history of human activities in the Tianshan Mountains, the eastern Silk Road, and the Hunsandak Sandy Land, and find that the demand for plant resources—whether for human settlement, military construction, or warfare—may have caused a sudden decline in terrestrial vegetation, thereby disrupting the positive effects of dust on plant biomass growth.
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