{"id":18545,"date":"2017-03-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.journals.cambridge.org\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2017-04-13T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T12:12:09","slug":"introducing-quaternary-research-an-interdisciplinary-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/blog\/2017\/03\/20\/introducing-quaternary-research-an-interdisciplinary-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Quaternary Research \u2013 an interdisciplinary journal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Quaternary Era \u2013 approximately the last 2.7 million years of Earth\u2019s history – is characterized by world-wide climatic changes associated with the growth and decline of ice sheets and glaciers in high latitudes, and the related fall and rise of sea level.\u00a0 These changes have had and continue to have a profound effect on landscapes, processes of erosion and deposition, ecosystems, and the distribution of plants and animals in all part of the Earth.\u00a0 The Quaternary is also the period in which our human ancestors evolved and spread across the globe, and began to have a major impact on their environment. Understanding the nature and causes of the climatic and environmental changes that characterize the Quaternary is therefore important for understanding human evolution and provides a perspective for ongoing natural and anthropogenic climate change.\u00a0 Knowledge of past environments (e.g. the past frequency and severity of wildland fires) also has direct relevance for many aspects of environmental management.<\/p>\n

Quaternary studies today employ a wide range of approaches and techniques. Traditional studies of stratigraphy and paleo-environmental proxies are being complemented by increasingly precise dating techniques and the application of sophisticated geochemical, isotopic, and biogeochemical analyses to reconstruct past environments.<\/p>\n

Quaternary Research<\/em><\/a><\/strong> has a nearly 50-year, distinguished history of publishing articles of interdisciplinary interest on the evidence for Quaternary climatic and environmental change, as well as its effects on landscapes, ecosystems, and human populations, and many significant articles have been published in the journal over the years<\/a><\/strong>*.<\/p>\n

As a result of the contributions of its many authors, Quaternary Research<\/em> has established itself as a leading journal in its field, with a reputation for authoritative, high-quality papers of broad interdisciplinary interest.\u00a0\u00a0 Our content is global in scope, as is our authorship.\u00a0 Over the past five years, research conducted in North America (USA, Canada, Greenland) comprises about one third (33.7%) of the published work.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A further 23.5% was conducted in Asia (mainly China and Tibet); 18% was carried out in Europe (including Russia); and 12% in Latin America.\u00a0\u00a0 About 3% of papers are global summaries or methods papers.<\/p>\n

Now that Cambridge University Press is publishing the journal on behalf of the Quaternary Research Center<\/a><\/strong> of the University of Washington, we look forward to a new era for the journal, in which it reaches new audiences while maintaining its reputation as a premier journal in its field.<\/p>\n

We encourage authors to continue to submit<\/a> their best work to the journal.\u00a0 We have relaxed the former strict word limits on articles and encourage authors to include their datasets as supplementary online material.\u00a0 We are especially interested in manuscripts that address human-environment interactions during the Quaternary; applications of Quaternary science to\u00a0environmental management, including geologic hazards; and new methods for investigation and analysis of Quaternary landforms and deposits.<\/p>\n

We also welcome review papers on important topics of broad interdisciplinary interest and proposals for topical special issues.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Quaternary Research will celebrate its 50th<\/sup> anniversary.\u00a0 We are looking forward to celebrating the anniversary of the premier journal in its field.<\/p>\n

Written by Editors: Dr Nicholas Lancaster Desert Research Institute,<\/i> Dr Derek B. Booth University of Washington<\/i>\u00a0and Dr Lewis A Owen University of Cincinnati<\/i><\/p>\n

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*Complimentary access has been provided to a collection of articles handpicked by the Editors, you can access the papers for free by clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Find out more about the journal and it’s research by visiting cambridge.org\/qua<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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