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Figueroa-Rangel, Willis, Olvera-Vargas
Key questions for understanding the resilience and variability of Mexican Neotropical cloud forest assemblages in current and future climate change include: How have human disturbances and climate change affected the dynamics of the cloud forest…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Virah-Sawmy, Willis, Gillson
Aim There remains some uncertainty concerning the causes of extinctions of Madagascar's megafauna. One hypothesis is that they were caused by over-hunting by humans. A second hypothesis is that their extinction was caused by both environmental…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Josefsson, Gunnarson, Liedgren, Bergman, Ostlund
In studies on natural dynamics, biodiversity and reference conditions legacies of preindustrial human land use are often neglected. In this study, using archaeology and dendrochronology combined with field surveys on present forest characteristics,…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Blarquez, Bremond, Carcaillet
Summary1. Relationships between vegetation, climate and disturbance are likely to be altered in the near future as a result of changes in both climate and human impacts on ecosystems. These changes could trigger species losses and distribution…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Blarquez, Bremond, Carcaillet
Relationships between vegetation, climate and disturbance are likely to be altered in the near future as a result of changes in both climate and human impacts on ecosystems. These changes could trigger species losses and distribution shifts in…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Allen
This thesis presents the results and conclusions based on the literature concerning the prehistoric cultural context, the historic-era context of logging and sheep ranching in RNSP, the direct effects of fire on cultural resources from fire and fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Brunswig, Butler, Diggs
The following report presents initial efforts to develop a cultural resources component of the Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) Fire Management Plan. In late summer, 2009, Dr. Robert Brunswig, Director of the University of Northern Colorado's…
Type: Document
Year: 2010
Craddock
Although firesetting is well recognized as one of the most ancient mining techniques for breaking up rocks, surprising little is known about the way in which it was practised. This article reviews not only the archaeological and historical evidence…
Type: Document
Year: 1992
Finney, Martin
Fire intervals were derived from analysis of fire scars on samples taken from 14 redwood (Sequoia sempervirens D. Don (Endl.)) stumps throughout Annadel State Park, California. Samples were obtained from small redwood groves that are isolated within…
Type: Document
Year: 1992
Denevan
The myth persists that in 1492 the Americas were a sparsely populated wilderness, 'a world of barely perceptible human disturbance.' There is substantial evidence, however, that the Native American landscape of the early sixteenth century was a…
Type: Document
Year: 1992