4200 years of pine-dominated upland forest dynamics in west-central Mexico: Human or natural legacy?

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1893-1907

  Figueroa Rangel, Blanca L ^a,b   Willis, Katherine J ^a,c   Olvera Vargas, Miguel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Drought cycles; Fire; Forest management; Human disturbance; Long term climate trends; Paleoecology; Pine dynamics; Sierra de manantlan biosphere reserve; Solar forcing; Upland forest; West central Mexico

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; FOREST DYNAMICS; GRASS; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SUCCESSION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

POACEAE;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MEXICO; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME; TREE;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MEXICO; PALEONTOLOGY; PINUS; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 54549117968     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0830.1     Document Type: Article

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