The Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental History of Mexico, 1st ed. 2019 A Paleoecological Approach on Mesoamerica

This book provides essential information on Mexico?s Holocene and Anthropocene climate and vegetation history. Considering the geography of Mexico ? which is home to a variety of climatic and environmental conditions, from desert and tropical to high mountain climates ? this book focuses on its postglacial paleoecology and paleoclimatology. Further, it analyses human intervention since the middle Holocene as a major agent of environmental change. Offering a valuable tool for understanding past climate change and its relationship with present climate change, the book is a must-read for botanists, ecologists, palaeontologists and graduate students in related fields.

1) Introduction: The Holocene and Anthropocene Environmental History, of Mexico.- 2) Paleoclimate of the Gulf of California (Northwestern Mexico) during the last 2000 years.- 3) Holocene hydroclimate of the subtropical Mexico: a state of the art.- 4)The Environment of Ancient Cloud Forests in the Mexican Pacific.- 5) Sea level change and its influence on the coastal landscape in the Gulf of Mexico during the Holocene.- 6) Insights into the Holocene environmental history of the highlands in central Mexico.- 7) Integration of landscape approaches for the spatial reconstruction of the vegetation.- 8) Volcanic Activity in Mexico during the Holocene.- 9) Human Influence vs Natural Climate Variability.- 10) Holocene Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology of south and south-eastern Mexico: a palynological approach.- 11) From Calakmul to the Sea: The Historical Ecology of a Classic Maya City that Controlled the Candelaria/Champoton Watersheds.- 12) Lidar at El Pilar: Understanding Vegetation Above and Discovering the Ground Features Below in the Maya Forest.

This book gathers virtually all available information on Mexican Paleoclimate and Paleobotany in a single source The content is presented in a comprehensive and systematic manner Intended as a framework for the design of future research on paleoclimates and paleobotany