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

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; rec...

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Main Authors: Jones, Matthew D., Djamali, Morteza, Holmes, Jonathan, Weeks, Lloyd, Leng, Melanie J., Lashkari, Arash, Alamdari, Kourosh, Noorollahi, Dariush, Thomas, L., Metcalfe, Sarah E.
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30187/
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author Jones, Matthew D.
Djamali, Morteza
Holmes, Jonathan
Weeks, Lloyd
Leng, Melanie J.
Lashkari, Arash
Alamdari, Kourosh
Noorollahi, Dariush
Thomas, L.
Metcalfe, Sarah E.
author_facet Jones, Matthew D.
Djamali, Morteza
Holmes, Jonathan
Weeks, Lloyd
Leng, Melanie J.
Lashkari, Arash
Alamdari, Kourosh
Noorollahi, Dariush
Thomas, L.
Metcalfe, Sarah E.
author_sort Jones, Matthew D.
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description 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 allow 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 displays 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.
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spelling nottingham-301872020-05-04T17:11:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30187/ Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene Jones, Matthew D. Djamali, Morteza Holmes, Jonathan Weeks, Lloyd Leng, Melanie J. Lashkari, Arash Alamdari, Kourosh Noorollahi, Dariush Thomas, L. Metcalfe, Sarah E. 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 allow 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 displays 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. Sage 2015-06-03 Article PeerReviewed Jones, Matthew D., Djamali, Morteza, Holmes, Jonathan, Weeks, Lloyd, Leng, Melanie J., Lashkari, Arash, Alamdari, Kourosh, Noorollahi, Dariush, Thomas, L. and Metcalfe, Sarah E. (2015) Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene. Holocene, 25 (10). pp. 1651-1661. ISSN 0959-6836 agriculture Iran lake late-Holocene ostracods pollen http://hol.sagepub.com/content/25/10/1651.full.pdf doi:10.1177/0959683615594242 doi:10.1177/0959683615594242
spellingShingle agriculture
Iran
lake
late-Holocene
ostracods
pollen
Jones, Matthew D.
Djamali, Morteza
Holmes, Jonathan
Weeks, Lloyd
Leng, Melanie J.
Lashkari, Arash
Alamdari, Kourosh
Noorollahi, Dariush
Thomas, L.
Metcalfe, Sarah E.
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
title_full Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene
title_fullStr Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene
title_full_unstemmed Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene
title_short Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late Holocene
title_sort human impact on the hydroenvironment of lake parishan, sw iran, through the late holocene
topic agriculture
Iran
lake
late-Holocene
ostracods
pollen
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30187/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30187/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30187/