Human versus climatic influences on late-Holocene fire regimes in southwestern Nicaragua

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-706

  Avnery, Shiri ^a   Dull, Robert A ^b   Keitt, Timothy H ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

biomass burning; late Holocene; Nicaragua; paleoecology; pre Hispanic land use; wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS BURNING; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; MAGNITUDE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RESOLUTION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

NICARAGUA; OMETEPE; RIVAS;

EID: 79957668220     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610391314     Document Type: Article

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