Comment on "intensifying weathering and land use in iron age central Africa"

Maley Jean, Giresse Pierre, Doumenge Charles, Favier Charly. 2012. Comment on "intensifying weathering and land use in iron age central Africa". Science, 337 (6098) : 1040.

Quartile : Outlier, Sujet : MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Anthropologie-Ethnologie; Economie-gestion; Psychologie-éthologie-ergonomie; Sociologie-démographie

Résumé : Bayon et al. (Reports, 9 March 2012, p. 1219) claim that the "rainforest crisis" in Central Africa centered around 2500 years before the present "was not triggered by natural climatic factors" and that it was caused by widespread deforestation resulting from the arrival of the Bantu colonists. However, there is a consensus among palaeoecologists that this landscape change and the related physical erosion it caused was due mainly to a shift to more seasonal rainfall regime.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : paléontologie, histoire naturelle, changement climatique, utilisation des terres, forêt tropicale, couverture végétale

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Afrique centrale

Classification Agris : P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
B50 - Histoire
K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales
P40 - Météorologie et climatologie

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 6 (2005-2013) - Agriculture, environnement, nature et sociétés

Auteurs et affiliations

• Maley Jean, ISEM (FRA)
• Giresse Pierre, Université de Perpignan (FRA)
• Doumenge Charles, CIRAD-ES-UPR BSef (FRA)
• Favier Charly, UM2 (FRA)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/566302/)

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