Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492-1900 CE

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2016, Pages E696-E704

  Liebmann, Matthew J ^a   Farella, Joshua ^b   Roos, Christopher I ^c   Stack, Adam ^a   Martini, Sarah ^a   Swetnam, Thomas W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral Pueblo; Anthropocene; Anthropogenic landscapes; Archaeology; Dendrochronology

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARCHEOLOGY; ARCHITECTURE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FIRE; FOREST; GLOBAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; LIGHT EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFORESTATION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; TREE;

CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; TREES;

EID: 84957824274     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1521744113     Document Type: Review

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