Deforestation, Drought and Humans: New Discoveries of the Late Quaternary Paleoenvironment of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
The mystery of the trees of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is a complex problem within a dynamic ecosystem. With new physical cores from the volcanic crater lake Rano Kao, this dissertation uncovers a detailed 15,000 year ecological history of Easter Island and its climatic variability. New radiocarbon da...
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PDXScholar
2011
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| Online Access: | https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/782 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1781&context=open_access_etds |