Neotropical human-landscape interactions, fire, and atmospheric CO 2 during european conquest

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 853-864

  Nevle, R J ^a   Bird, D K ^b   Ruddiman, W F ^c   Dull, R A ^d  

^a Bellarmine College Preparatory   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; Climate; Demographic collapse; Fire; Little Ice Age; Neotropics; Pandemics; Reforestation; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS BURNING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHARCOAL; COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EL NINO; EPIDEMIC; FIRE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRRADIANCE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; LITTLE ICE AGE; NEOTROPIC ECOZONE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREHISTORIC; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REFORESTATION; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 79960886844     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611404578     Document Type: Article

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