Native Americans, Ecosystem Development, and Historical Range of Variation

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 76-91

  Nowacki, Gregory J ^a   MacCleery, Douglas W ^c   Lake, Frank K ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Burning practices by diverse tribal groups, across the Pacific Northwest; Human modified landscapes, human impact in concentric rings; Megafaunal extinction at the hands of humans; Native Americans and HRV, indigenous in ecosystem dynamics; Native Americans, ecosystem development, and HRV; North America, fire and weapon toting humans, megaherbivory to human based; North American ecosystems reorganized with human arrival, the Holocene Epoch; North American ecosystems today, and human effects on past ecosystems; Post megafauna world, trajectories different from interglacial period; Rapid change in grassland oak vegetation, coinciding with European settlement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883258378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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