A Dynamic History of Climate Change and Human Impact on the Environment from Keālia Pond, Maui, Hawaiian Islands

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 748-762

  Pau, Stephanie ^a   MacDonald, Glen M ^b   Gillespie, Thomas W ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

forest clearance; Hawaiian Islands; lowland dry forests; Medieval Climate Anomaly; Polynesian population growth

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DRY FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST CLEARANCE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; POPULATION GROWTH; VEGETATION HISTORY;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS;

EID: 84863515223     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.652853     Document Type: Article

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