Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations

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dc.contributor.authorFreeman, Jacob
dc.contributor.authorAnderies, John M.
dc.contributor.authorBeckman, Noelle G.
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Erick
dc.contributor.authorBaggio, Jacopo A.
dc.contributor.authorBird, Darcy
dc.contributor.authorNicholson, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorFinley, Judson Byrd
dc.contributor.authorCapriles, Jose M.
dc.contributor.authorGil, Adolfo F.
dc.contributor.authorByers, David
dc.contributor.authorGayo, Eugenia
dc.contributor.authorLatorre, Claudio
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:09:18Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:09:18Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractExplaining the stability of human populations provides knowledge for understanding the resilience of human societies to environmental change. Here, we use archaeological radiocarbon records to evaluate a hypothesis drawn from resilience thinking that may explain the stability of human populations: Faced with long-term increases in population density, greater variability in the production of food leads to less stable populations, while lower variability leads to more stable populations. However, increased population stability may come with the cost of larger collapses in response to rare, large-scale environmental perturbations. Our results partially support this hypothesis. Agricultural societies that relied on extensive landscape engineering to intensify production and tightly control variability in the production of food experienced the most stability. Contrary to the hypothesis, these societies also experienced the least severe population declines. We propose that the interrelationship between landscape engineering and increased political-economic complexity reduces the magnitude of population collapses in a region.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10745-021-00242-z
dc.identifier.eissn1572-9915
dc.identifier.issn0300-7839
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00242-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94328
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000691933600002
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final382
dc.pagina.inicio369
dc.revistaHuman ecology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectIntensification
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectPopulation stability
dc.subjectHuman population ecology
dc.subjectRadiocarbon
dc.titleLandscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen49
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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