The Lowland Maya Area (eBook, PDF)

Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface
Redaktion: Fedick, Scott; Gomez-Pompa, A.; Jim?nez-Osornio, Juan; Allen, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Integrating history, biodiversity, ethnobotany, geology, ecology, archaeology, anthropology, and other disciplines, The Lowland Maya Area is a valuable guide to the fascinating relationship between man and his environment in the Yucatán peninsula. This book covers virtually every aspect of the biology and ecology of the Maya Lowlands and the

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040283349
• Artikelnr.: 72298434

Inhaltsangabe

About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. Research Challenges for the Lowland Maya Area: An Introduction
Part II: The Biological and Physical Environment
Chapter 2. The Changing Global Environment and the Lowland Maya: Past Patterns and Current Dynamics
Introduction
Past Environments and the Yucatán Peninsula
The El Edén Tropical Seasonal Forest: Current Ecosystem Structure
Ecosystem Dynamics: Current versus Past
Current and Projected Environmental Change and the Yucatán Peninsula
Conclusion
Chapter 3. In the Beginning: Early Events in the Development of Mesoamerica and the Lowland Maya Area
Introduction
Geologic History
Climatic History
Vegetational History
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Paleolimnological Approaches for Inferring Past Climate Change in the Maya Region: Recent Advances and Methodological Limitations
Introduction
Theoretical Basis for Isotope-Based Paleoclimate Studies
Choosing a Study Site
Complementary Sediment Proxies
Results and Discussion
Chapter 5. Rhythms of Precipitation in the Yucatán Peninsula
Introduction
Experimental Details
Normal Conditions for the Yucatán Peninsula
Yucatán in the Context of SPI-12 of All Mexico
Periodicity
Typical Patterns
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Structure and Diversity of the Forests at the El Edén Ecological Reserve
Introduction
Study Area
Methods and Materials
Results
Discussion
Chapter 7. Hydrogeology of the Yucatán Peninsula
General Geology of the Northern Yucatán Peninsula
Soils
Regional Hydroge