Remote Sensing | |
Quantifying Ancient Maya Land Use Legacy Effects on Contemporary Rainforest Canopy Structure | |
Jessica N. Hightower2  A. Christine Butterfield2  John F. Weishampel2  Rosa Lasaponara1  | |
[1] Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, 4110 Libra Drive, Orlando, FL 32816, USA;;Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, 4110 Libra Drive, Orlando, FL 32816, USA; E-Mails: | |
关键词: agricultural terracing; forest canopy structure; land use legacy; LiDAR; Maya; | |
DOI : 10.3390/rs61110716 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Human land use legacies have significant and long-lasting ecological impacts across landscapes. Investigating ancient (>400 years) legacy effects can be problematic due to the difficulty in detecting specific, historic land uses, especially those hidden beneath dense canopies. Caracol, the largest (~200 km2) Maya archaeological site in Belize, was abandoned
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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