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Legacies of Prehistoric Agricultural Practices Within Plant and Soil Properties Across an Arid Ecosystem

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Author	Hall, Sharon J. Trujillo, Jolene Nakase, Dana Strawhacker, Colleen Kruse Peeples, Melissa Schaafsma, Hoski Briggs, John
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Closely integrated research between archaeologists and ecologists provides a long-term view of human land use that is rare in the ecological literature, allowing for investigation of activities that lead to enduring environmental outcomes. This extended temporal perspective is particularly important in aridlands where succession occurs slowly and ecosystem processes are mediated by abiotic, geomorphic factors. Numerous studies show that impacts from ancient human actions can persist, but few have explored the types of practices or mechanisms that lead to either transient or long-term environmental change. We compared plant and soil properties and processes from a range of landscape patch types in the Sonoran Desert of the US Southwest that supported different, well-documented prehistoric farming practices from AD 750–1300. Our results show that the types of ancient human activities that leave long-term ecological legacies in aridlands are those that fundamentally alter “slow variables” such as soil properties that regulate the timing and supply of water. Prehistoric Hohokam floodwater-irrigation practices, but not dryland farming techniques, substantially altered soil texture, which was strongly associated with desert plant community and functional composition. However, prehistoric agriculture did not consistently alter long-term nutrient availability and thus had no impact on “fast variables” such as production of seasonal annual plants that are restricted to periods of ample rainfall. In this arid ecosystem, the inverse texture model explained patterns in plant functional composition at large scales, but is less predictive of production of short-lived desert annuals that experience a more mesic precipitation regime.
Starting Page	1273
Ending Page	1293
Page Count	21
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ISSN	14329840
Journal	Ecosystems
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	7
e-ISSN	14350629
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-06-26
Publisher Place	Boston
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Subject Keyword	resilience inverse texture hypothesis Hohokam dryland and runoff agriculture winter desert annuals anthropogenic landscapes Ecology Plant Sciences Zoology Environmental Management Geoecology/Natural Processes Nature Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Environmental Chemistry Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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