Accelerated soil erosion around a Mexican highland lake caused by prehispanic agriculture

Nature

Volumn 362, Issue 6415, 1993, Pages 48-51

  O'Hara, Sarah L ^a   Street Perrott, F Alayne ^b,c   Burt, Timothy P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b Environmental Change Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL METHOD; EROSION RATE; HIGHLAND AREA; HIGHLAND LAKE; HISTORICAL STUDIES; LAND CLEARANCE; PALAEOLIMNOLOGICAL STUDIES; PLOUGH AGRICULTURE; PRE-HISPANIC CULTURE; PREHISPANIC AGRICULTURE; SOIL EROSION; SPANISH CONQUEST;

MEXICO, MICHOACAN, LAKE PATZCUARO; MEXICO, MICHOACAN, PATZCUARO LAKE;

EID: 0027455838     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/362048a0     Document Type: Article

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