Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene

Title
Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Jones, Matthew D
Djamali, Morteza
Holmes, Jonathan
Weeks, Lloyd
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4736-9633
Email: lweeks2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lweeks2
Leng, Melanie J
Lashkari, Arash
Alamdari, Kourosh
Noorollahi, Dariush
Thomas, Louise
Metcalfe, Sarah E
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1177/0959683615594242
UNE publication id
une:18866
Abstract
A multiproxy record from Lake Parishan, SW Iran, shows human impact on the lake and its catchment over the last 4000 years. The Parishan record provides evidence of changes in lake hydrology, from ostracod, diatom and isotope analyses, that are directly linked to human activity in the catchment; recorded by pollen and charcoal and supported by regional archaeological and historical data. The lake ostracod fauna is particularly sensitive to human-induced catchment alterations and allows us to identify changes in catchment hydrology that are due to more than a simple change in precipitation: evaporation state. Oxygen isotope data from endogenic carbonates follow these faunal changes but also display a longer trend to more positive values through the period, coincident with regional patterns of water balance for the late-Holocene in the eastern Mediterranean.
Link
Citation
The Holocene, 25(10), p. 1651-1661
ISSN
1477-0911
0959-6836
Start page
1651
End page
1661

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