Human landscape modification and expansion of tropical woodland in southern Arabia during the mid-Holocene from rock hyrax middens

Agriculture & Biology

• arid lands 17%
• Boswellia sacra 57%
• carbon radioisotopes 22%
• charcoal 17%
• climate 12%
• Cyperaceae 17%
• deserts 15%
• ecosystems 35%
• flora 13%
• fossils 32%
• frankincense 52%
• grasses 11%
• groundwater 17%
• hydrology 21%
• lakes 13%
• land use change 19%
• light microscopes 17%
• methodology 4%
• pollen 49%
• pollen sampling 22%
• ponding (water management) 28%
• Procavia capensis 53%
• Procaviidae 100%
• rain 12%
• resins 13%
• rocks 61%
• stable isotopes 33%
• Terminalia 41%
• tropical plants 18%
• vegetation cover 18%
• wildfires 20%
• woodlands 63%
• Yemen 42%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• archaeological evidence 15%
• aridification 17%
• charcoal 12%
• climate 6%
• desert 10%
• economy 9%
• ecosystem 14%
• ecosystem function 13%
• ecosystem structure 15%
• flora 11%
• fossil 18%
• grass 10%
• groundwater 7%
• Holocene 49%
• hydrology 10%
• lacustrine deposit 11%
• land use change 11%
• method 2%
• midden 83%
• pollen 57%
• rainfall 7%
• resin 11%
• rock 30%
• sedge 16%
• stable isotope 21%
• subsistence 13%
• transition 7%
• vegetation cover 12%
• wildfire 12%
• woodland 60%