Reconstructing a Prairie-Woodland Mosaic on the Northern Great Plains
Risk, Resilience, and Resource Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9217797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matt Boyd (0000-0002-1387-5047, Lakehead University), Scott Hamilton (0000-0002-9117-9573, Lakehead University), G L Running IV, Garry L Running (University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 199 |
| Pages | 235-252 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/pan.2006.024 |
| OpenAlex | W2052176310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 36 |
Recent geological evidence of high-amplitude, short-term, climatic variability on the northern Plains in the late Holocene implies that significant fluctuations in resource availability may have regularly occurred on the scale of human generations. In this region, evidence of high mobility, low population density, and storage are generalized responses of hunter-gatherer populations to the effects of environmental variability on resourcepredictability. In order to achieve more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between risk, environment, and land-use for the last few thousand years, we suggest that multidisciplinary reconstruction of detailed landscape histories is necessary. This is so because landscape histories may encode: (1) spatial and temporal variability in habitat diversity (i.e., patchiness); (2) geographical differences in ecosystem resilience and resistance to short-term macro climatic variability; and (3) enhancement of resource predictability or diversity through lnanagement practices such as anthropogenic burning. Modern vegetation surveys, presettlement landcover reconstructions, and recent geomorphic and paleo vegetation data from the Oak Lake Sandhills, Manitoba, Canada, are assembled to illustrate these points.Keywords: landscape reconstructionhistorical ecologyhunter-gatherer land useanthropogenic burningnorthern Great Plains
Archaeology · Geography · Habitat · Holocene · Land use · Physical geography · Population · Psychological resilience · Resource (disambiguation) · Vegetation (pathology) · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Tree-ring climate responses
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |