Risky business: Temporal and spatial variation in preindustrial dryland agriculture

Human Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 739-763

  Lee, Charlotte T ^a   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^a   Vitousek, Peter M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystem dynamics; Dryland agriculture; Hawai'i; Polynesia; Spatiotemporal variation; Stochastic demography

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; DRYLAND FARMING; GROWTH RESPONSE; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750311380     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-006-9037-x     Document Type: Article

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