Regional, holocene records of the human dimension of global change: Sea-level and land-use change in prehistoric Mexico

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 127-146

  Sluyter, Andrew ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Holocene; Land use; Mexico; Paleoecology; Sea level; Veracruz

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; MAIZE CULTIVATION;

MEXICO;

EID: 0031060872     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(96)00007-0     Document Type: Article

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