Xun Li

TL;DR: Anthropogenic burning in New Zealand highlights the vulnerability of closed-canopy forests to novel disturbance regimes and suggests that similar settings may be less resilient to climate-induced changes in the future.

TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution charcoal and pollen analyses of sediment cores from five lakes, located on the deforested eastern side of the Southern Alps, were performed to identify human influence on fire occurrence.

TL;DR: This article used multiple proxy palaeolimnology to explore how lake ecology shifted following Māori and European settlement in the catchment, and how palaeoecological data can be used to inform lake rehabilitation and conservation measures, alongside the desires of the indigenous community.

TL;DR: In this paper , the impacts of multiple long-term stressors on lake ecosystem structure and function were investigated and it was shown that the effects of increased nutrient inputs are much stronger than the influence of other, potentially significant, drivers of ecosystem change, and that the degree of nutrient impact can be underestimated by environmental monitoring.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the potential for generating long (centuries to millennia) proxy records of tree mast seeding, from pollen deposited in lake sediments, using pollen recovered from annually-banded (varved) sediments from a core collected from Lake Ohau, South Island, New Zealand.