Climate change and the agricultural history of a mid-elevation Andean montane forest

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1522-1532

  Bush, Mark B ^a   Mosblech, Nicole A Sublette ^a   Church, Warren ^b  

^a Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b University System of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; Chachapoya; charcoal; fossil pollen; human impacts; late Holocene; montane forest; northern Peru; paleoecology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MAIZE; MONTANE FOREST; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; SHORELINE;

ANDES; PERU;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84939525815     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683615585837     Document Type: Article

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