James M Russell

Datos Biográficos

ID3837779
NOMBREJames M Russell
NOMBRESJames M
APELLIDORussell
FIRMARUSSELL J M
AFILIACIONESBrown University
ORCID0000-0002-4835-7696
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAS33
TOTAL COMO AUTOR39
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1976
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H3

  • Hydroclimate variability and human influence in southern Yemen over the past 1100 years

    Open AccessSonja Rigterink, Shah Parth et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2025Referencias: 12

    We present the first subfossil chironomid record from the Arabian Peninsula from a sediment core from Lake Gayal el Bazal, southeastern Yemen, providing insights into hydrological changes over the last ~1100 years. Shallow-water chironomid morphotypes, Dicrotendipes nervosus -type and Polypedilum nubeculosum -type, indicating low lake levels and productive habitats with abundant macrophyte cover, suggest two dry intervals between ca. 1575 and 167…

  • Moisture evolution in North Xinjiang (northwest China) during the last 8000 years linked to the westerlies’ winter half-year precipitation

    Open AccessXiaonan Zhang, Aifeng Zhou et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2021

    Winter half-year precipitation dominates variations in hydroclimatic conditions in North Xinjiang, but few researchers have focused on this very important aspect of the Holocene climate. Here we report multiproxy evidence of Holocene hydroclimate changes from the sediments of Wulungu Lake in North Xinjiang. The site is a closed terminal lake fed mainly by meltwater from snow and ice, and today the area is climatically dominated by the westerlies.…

  • Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years

    Open AccessRachel L Lupien, James M Russell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2021Citada por: 16Referencias: 126

  • Using community science data to investigate urban Coyotes ( Canis latrans ) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Open AccessChristopher B Mowry, Adél Lee et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2020

    Coyote activity was investigated in Atlanta, Georgia from 2015 to 2018 using publicly collected data. More than 500 reports were received annually (1,672 total) and analysis revealed bias toward areas of higher income and education. Human-coyote encounters, defined as an interaction at close range, were rare (196; 12% of observations), but 124 of those reports (63%) indicated the presence of pets nearby. Coyotes were less likely to be observed in…

  • The morphology of experimentally produced charcoal distinguishes fuel types in the Arctic tundra

    Open AccessE Pereboom, Richard S Vachula et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2020Citada por: 3Referencias: 1

    Wildfires in the Arctic tundra have become increasingly frequent in recent years and have important implications for tundra ecosystems and for the global carbon cycle. Lake sediment–based records are the primary means of understanding the climatic influences on tundra fires. Sedimentary charcoal has been used to infer climate-driven changes in tundra fire frequency but thus far cannot differentiate characteristics of the vegetation burnt during f…

  • Late Quaternary vegetation, climate, and fire history of the Southeast Atlantic Coastal Plain based on a 30,000-yr multi-proxy record from White Pond, South Carolina, USA

    Open AccessTeresa R Krause, James M Russell et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019

    The patterns and drivers of late Quaternary vegetation dynamics in the southeastern United States are poorly understood due to low site density, problematic chronologies, and a paucity of independent paleoclimate proxy records. We present a well-dated (15 accelerator mass spectrometry 14 C dates) 30,000-yr record from White Pond, South Carolina that consists of high-resolution analyses of fossil pollen, macroscopic charcoal, and Sporormiella spor…

  • Climate exceeded human management as the dominant control of fire at the regional scale in California’s Sierra Nevada

    Open AccessRichard S Vachula, James M Russell et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    The societal impacts of recent, severe fires in California highlight the need to understand the long-term effectiveness of human fire management. The relative influences of local management and climate at centennial timescales are controversial and poorly understood. This is the case in California’s Sierra Nevada, an actively managed area with a rich history of Native American fire use. We analyzed charcoal preserved in lake sediments from Yosemi…

  • Temperature-controlled tundra fire severity and frequency during the last millennium in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska

    Open AccessJarunetr Sae-Lim, James M Russell et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2019Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    Wildfire is an important disturbance to Arctic tundra ecosystems. In the coming decades, tundra fire frequency, intensity, and extent are projected to increase because of anthropogenic climate change. To more accurately predict the effects of climate change on tundra fire regimes, it is critical to have detailed knowledge of the natural frequency and extent of past wildfires and how they responded to past climate variability. We present analyses …

  • Unmixing grain-size distributions in lake sediments

    Open AccessXiaonan Zhang, Aifeng Zhou et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2018

    The grain-size distribution (GSD) of sediments provides information on sediment provenance, transport processes, and the sedimentary environment. Although a wide range of statistical parameters have been applied to summarize GSDs, most are directed at only parts of the distribution, which limits the amount of environmental information that can be retrieved. Endmember modeling provides a flexible method for unmixing GSDs; however, the calculation …

  • Lowland forest collapse and early human impacts at the end of the African Humid Period at Lake Edward, equatorial East Africa

    Open AccessSarah J Ivory, James Russell et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2018

    In Africa, the early Holocene was characterized by wetter, warmer conditions than today, followed by rapid aridification at ~5.2 ka. However, a lack of lowland vegetation records has prevented a detailed evaluation of forest response to Holocene climate change. Additionally, although modern vegetation communities are linked to human disturbance, few studies have addressed how prehistoric human activities helped engineer the character of modern Af…

  • Fire and human record at Lake Victoria, East Africa, during the Early Iron Age

    Open AccessDario Battistel, Elena Argiriadis et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2016Citada por: 3Referencias: 9

    Organic molecular markers determined in a sediment core (V95-1A-1P) from Lake Victoria (East Africa) were used to reconstruct the history of human impact and regional fire activity during the Early Iron Age (~2400 to ~1100 yr BP). Fire history was reconstructed using levoglucosan and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as markers for biomass burning that demonstrate two distinct fire periods peaking at 1450–1700 and 1850–2050 cal. yr BP. A pa…

  • Human impacts, climate change, and aquatic ecosystem response during the past 2000 yr at Lake Wandakara, Uganda

    Open AccessJames M Russell, Sophie J McCoy et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2009

    Analyses of carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios of terrestrial leaf waxes and the carbon and nitrogen abundance, ratio, and isotopic composition of bulk sediments from Lake Wandakara, a crater lake in western Uganda, East Africa, document human and climatic controls on the aquatic system and on the surrounding terrestrial vegetation during the past two millennia. Our data indicate that Wandakara was a relatively stable, productive lake surrounded …

  • Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara

    Open AccessS Kröpelin, Dirk Verschuren et al.ARTICLEScience2008

    Desiccation of the Sahara since the middle Holocene has eradicated all but a few natural archives recording its transition from a “green Sahara” to the present hyperarid desert. Our continuous 6000-year paleoenvironmental reconstruction from northern Chad shows progressive drying of the regional terrestrial ecosystem in response to weakening insolation forcing of the African monsoon and abrupt hydrological change in the local aquatic ecosystem co…

  • Spatial complexity of ‘Little Ice Age’ climate in East Africa

    Open AccessJames M Russell, Dirk Verschuren et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2007Citada por: 4Referencias: 8

    Lithostratigraphic analyses of the sedimentary record from two contrasting crater lake basins in western Uganda, Africa, provide evidence for three major century-scale arid intervals during the last 2000 years. Variations in sedimentation and salt mineralogy of hypersaline Lake Kitagata, and a succession of fine-grained lake sediments and peat in the freshwater Lake Kibengo, suggest century-scale droughts centred on AD 0, ~1100, ~1550 and 1750. T…

  • Two Germans in the Civil War

    James M Russell, Joseph R Reinhart et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

  • Cobb County, Georgia, and the Origins of the Suburban South

    James M Russell, Thomas Allan ScottARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

  • To Battle for God and the Right

    James M Russell, Emerson Opdycke et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

  • Mid-holocene climate change in Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana

    Open AccessJames Russell, James M Russell et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2003

    Lake Bosumtwi is one of the most widely studied palaeoclimate archives in West Africa. Results from numerous AMS 14 C dates of samples from four piston cores from Lake Bosumtwi show that an abrupt sedimentary transition from a mid-Holocene sapropel to calcareous laminated muds occurred at about 3200 cal yr B.P. High-resolution analyses of the nitrogen isotopic composition of organic matter across this transition confirm its abrupt nature, and sug…

  • Classification of lacustrine sediments based on sedimentary components

    Open AccessDouglas Schnurrenberger, Douglas W Schnurrenberger et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolimnology2003

  • The ambivalence about the globalization of telecommunications

    James M RussellARTICLEJournal of Human Rights2002Referencias: 6

    A great deal of optimism has surrounded the recent globalization of telecommunications. One such benefactor of this telecommunications revolution may be international non-governmental organizations such as Amnesty International. Conceivably, human rights violations will become increasingly visible and states more accountable. However, concerns about the privatization of media and the growing involvement of multinational corporations in human righ…

  • Policing the Southern City

    James M Russell, Dennis C RouseyARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1998

  • Metropolitan Frontiers

    James M Russell, Darlene R Roth et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1997

  • The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845-1871

    James M Russell, Vicki Vaughn JohnsonARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Men and the Vision of the Southern Commercial Conventions, 1845–1871. By Vicki Vaughn Johnson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. xii, 328 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8262-0855-X.) Get access James Michael Russell James Michael Russell University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 276, …

  • Henry Grady's New South

    James M Russell, Harold E DavisARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1992

  • Atlanta, 1847-1890

    Leonard P Curry, James M RussellARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1990Citada por: 1