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Prehistoric Native Americans and ecological change : human ecosystems in eastern North America since the Pleistocene /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delcourt, Paul A.
Other Authors: Delcourt, Hazel R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Paleo-Indians > East (U.S.)
Ethnoecology > East (U.S.)
Nature > Effect of human beings on > East (U.S.)
Plant remains (Archaeology) > East (U.S.)
Paleoecology > Holocene.
Biotic communities > East (U.S.)
East (U.S.) > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Panarchy as an integrative paradigm
  • The need for a new synthesis
  • Panarchy theory and Quaternary ecosystems
  • Holocene human ecosystems
  • Ecological feedbacks and processes
  • Gene-level interactions
  • Population-level interactions
  • Community-level interactions
  • Landscape-level interactions
  • Regional-level interactions
  • Application and synthesis
  • The ecological legacy of prehistoric Native Americans