Shifting maize cultivation and secondary vegetation in the Southern Yucatán: Successional forest impacts of temporal intensification

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 233-246

  Schmook, Birgit ^a  

^a EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Agricultural intensification; Biodiversity; Calakmul Biosphere Reserve; Seasonally dry tropical forests; Shifting cultivation

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77956174290     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0128-2     Document Type: Article

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