OZPACS database:  Recent human impacts on Australian ecosystems

Raw datasets

Key references which presented radiocarbon dates were used to create a database of (uncalibrated) radiocarbon dates between 1000-0 yr BP. All available information relating to the samples is included within the database, which includes over 100 dating entries from more than 50 sites.

Lake Euramoo has been identified by OZPACS contributors as a site of particular interest for understanding recent human impacts on ecosystems. The site has been the subject of multiple analytical techniques targeting the period of interest to OZPACS (e.g. Haberle et al., 2006). Raw data from Simon Haberle and others’ work, and the original palynological studies of Kershaw (1973), are provided. References:
Haberle, S.G., Tibby, J.C., Dimitriadis, S. and Heijnis, H., 2006. The impact of European occupation on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem dynamics in an Australian tropical rain forest. Journal of Ecology, 94, 987-1002.

Kershaw, A.P. (1973) Late Quaternary vegetation of the Atherton Tableland, north-east Queensland, Australia. PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra.





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