TY  - BOOK
AU  - Delcourt,Paul A.
AU  - Delcourt,Hazel R.
TI  - Prehistoric native Americans and ecological change: human ecosystems in eastern North America since the Pleistocene 
SN  - 9780511525520 (ebook)
AV  - E78.E2 D45 2004
U1  - 304.2 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Paleo-Indians
KW  - East (U.S.)
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Ecology
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Plant remains (Archaeology)
KW  - Paleoecology
KW  - Holocene
KW  - Biotic communities
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525520
ER  -