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Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America Since the Pleistocene

By: Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt

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Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America Since the Pleistocene

By: Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt

This book shows that Holocene human ecosystems are complex adaptive systems in which humans interacted with their environment in a nested series of spatial and temporal scales. Using panarchy theory, it integrates paleoecological and archaeological research from the Eastern Woodlands of North America providing a paradigm to help resolve long-standing disagreements between ecologists and archaeologists about the importance of prehistoric Native Americans as agents for ecological change. The authors present the concept of a panarchy of complex adaptive cycles as applied to the development of increasingly complex human ecosystems through time. They explore examples of ecological interactions at the level of gene, population, community, landscape and regional hierarchical scales, emphasizing the ecological pattern and process involving the development of human ecosystems. Finally, they offer a perspective on the implications of the legacy of Native Americans as agents of change for conservation and ecological restoration efforts today.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521662702

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9780521662703

Long-Term Forest Dynamics of the Temperate Zone

A Case Study of Late-Quaternary Forests in Eastern North America

By: Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt

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Long-Term Forest Dynamics of the Temperate Zone

A Case Study of Late-Quaternary Forests in Eastern North America

By: Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt

The synthesis presented in this volume is a direct outgrowth of our ten-year FORMAP Project (Forest Mapping Across Eastern North America from 20,000 yr B.P. to the Present). Many previous research efforts in paleoecology have used plant-fossil evidence as proxy information for primarily geologic or climatic reconstructions or as a bio stratigraphic basis for correlation of regional events. In contrast, in this book, we deal with ecological questions that require a holistic perspective that integrates the interactions of biota with their dynamically changing environments over time scales up to tens of thousands of years. In the FORMAP Project, our major research objective has been to use late-Quaternary plant-ecological data sets to evaluate long-term patterns and processes in forest de velopment. In order to accomplish this objective, we have prepared subcontinent-scale calibrations that quantitatively relate the production and dispersal of arboreal pollen to dominance in the vegetation for the major tree types of eastern North America. Quantification of pollen-vegetation relationships provides a basis for developing quan titative plant-ecological data sets that allow further ecological analysis of both individual taxa and forest communities through time. Application of these calibrations to fossil pollen records for interpreting forest history thus represents a fundamental step beyond traditional summaries based upon pollen percentages.

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Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America Since the Pleistocene

By: Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt

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Human Ecosystems in Eastern North America Since the Pleistocene

By: Paul A. Delcourt,Hazel R. Delcourt

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Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Long-Term Forest Dynamics of the Temperate Zone

Long-Term Forest Dynamics of the Temperate Zone

Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

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