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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 October 2009
      29 July 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511525520
      9780521662703
      9780521050760
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525520
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.489kg, 216 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.333kg, 216 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, History, History of Native American Peoples, Ecology and Conservation
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    Life Sciences, History, History of Native American Peoples, Ecology and Conservation
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    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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    '… the book is a welcome addition to the study on human ecosystems in prehistoric times … [it] merits attention as an important study in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology.'

    Source: International Studies

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