A 2,000-year reconstruction of the rain-fed maize agricultural niche in the US Southwest

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bocinsky, R Kyle ^a   Kohler, Timothy A ^a,b,c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE EFFECT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; NICHE PARTITIONING; TREE RING;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; GROWING SEASON; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LANDRACE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MAIZE; PALEOCLIMATE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; UNITED STATES; WATER MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; TREE;

COLORADO; PUEBLO; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; RAIN; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TREES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84923289392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6618     Document Type: Article

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