Ancient Maya Agroforestry Echoing Through Spatial Relationships in the Extant Forest of NW Belize

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 141-148

  Ross, Nanci J ^a   Rangel, Thiago F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient land use; Maya; Monte Carlo; Pairwise distances; Synergisms; Tropical forest community dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOME GARDEN; LAND USE CONFLICT; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; SYNERGISM; TROPICAL FOREST;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; MAYA FOREST;

EID: 79952044586     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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