175
Views
5
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Native American landscape modification in pre-settlement south-west Georgia

, , &

primary data sources

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) & U.S. Geological Survey’s Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS). [DEM]. 30 arcsecond. ‘GTOPO30’. 2014.
  • Research & Analytics Division of the Atlanta Regional Commission (producer), United States Geological Survey [USGS], & Georgia Department of Transportation [GaDOT]. ‘Georgia Rivers and Streams’. 7.5 mylar-minute. [1:31360]. 2016.
  • Soil Survey Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
  • Web Soil Survey. https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda gov/. [accessed 21 October 2017].
  • United States Department of Agriculture [USDA], Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Res Stn, Fire Sci Lab (Producer). 2017. ‘Fire Effects Information System’, [Online]. http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/ [accessed 03 November 2017].
  • Georgia GIS Clearinghouse, Georgia Spatial Data Infrastructure. http://data.georgiaspatial.org/ [accessed 03 November 2017].

bibliography

  • Abrams, M. D., 2009. ‘Native Americans, Smokey Bear and the rise and fall of eastern oak forests’, Penn State Environ Law Rev Arch, 18, p. 141.
  • Abrams, M. D., & Nowacki, G. J., 2008. ‘Native Americans as active and passive promoters of mast and fruit trees in the eastern USA’, The Holocene, 18 (7), pp. 1123–37. doi: 10.1177/0959683608095581
  • Bartram, W., 1958. The Travels of William Bartram (Athens, Geogia).
  • Black, B. A., Ruffner, C. M., & Abrams, M. D., 2006. ‘Native American influences on the forest composition of the Allegheny Plateau, northwest Pennsylvania’, Canadian J For Res, 36 (5), pp. 1266–75. doi: 10.1139/x06-027
  • Brotons, L., Thuiller, W., Araújo, M. B., & Hirzel, A. H., 2004. ‘Presence-absence versus presence-only modelling methods for predicting bird habitat suitability’, Ecography, 27 (4), pp. 437–48. doi: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2004.03764.x
  • Burns, R. M., & Honkala, B. H., (tech. coords.), 1990. ‘Silvics of North America: 1. Conifers; 2. Hardwoods’, Agriculture Handbook 654, United States Dep of Agriculture, Forest Serv (Washington, DC), vol. 2, p. 877.
  • Cadle, F. W., 1991. Georgia Land Surveying History and Law (Athens, Georgia).
  • Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health, Univ Georgia. 2017. Georgia Coastal Plain Native Plants for Conservation Landscaping and Wildlife Habitat [online]. https://ecoscapes.bugwood.org/action.cfm [accessed 03 December 2017
  • Clark, Jr, W. Z., & Zisa, A.C., 1976. Physiographic Map of Georgia, Dep Natural Resources (Atlanta, Georgia).
  • Cowell, C. M., 1995. ‘Presettlement piedmont forests: patterns of composition and disturbance in central Georgia’, Ann Assoc American Geogr, 85 (1), pp. 65–83.
  • Day, G. M., 1953. ‘The Indian as an ecological factor’, Ecology, 34, pp. 329–46. doi: 10.2307/1930900
  • Delcourt, H. R., & Delcourt, P. A.,1997. ‘Pre-Columbian Native American use of fire on southern Appalachian landscapes’, Conserv Biol, 11 (4), pp. 1010–14. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.96338.x
  • Delcourt, P. A., & Delcourt, H. R., 2004. Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change: human ecosystems in eastern North America since the Pleistocene (Cambridge).
  • Denevan, W. M., 1992. ‘The Pristine Myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492’, Ann Assoc American Geogr, 82 (3), pp. 369–85. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1992.tb01965.x
  • Denevan, W. M., 2011. ‘The “pristine myth” revisited’, Geogr Rev, 101 (4), pp. 576–91. doi: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2011.00118.x
  • Ethridge, R. F., 2004. Creek Country: the Creek Indians and their world (Chapel Hill, NC).
  • Fletcher, W. F., & Gould, H. P., 1942. The Native Persimmon (No. 685), United States Dep Agriculture.
  • Foster, H. T., Black, B., & Abrams, M. D., 2004. ‘A witness tree analysis of the effects of Native American Indians on the pre-European settlement forests in east-central Alabama’, Human Ecology, 32 (1), pp. 27–47. doi: 10.1023/B:HUEC.0000015211.98991.9c
  • Fritz, G. J., 1990. ‘Multiple pathways to farming in precontact eastern North America’, J World Prehist, 4 (4), pp. 387–435. doi: 10.1007/BF00974813
  • Georgia State Climate Office.1998. Climatology of the Georgia Coastal Plain [online]. http://coastgis.marsci.uga.edu/summit/climatecoast.html [accessed 03 November 2017].
  • Gremillion, K. J., 1995. ‘Comparative paleoethnobotany of three native southeastern communities of the historic period’, Southeastern Archaeol, pp. 1–16.
  • Griffith, G. E., 2000. Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia, US Dep of the Interior, US Geological Survey.
  • Komarek, E. V. Sr, 1964. ‘The natural history of lightning’, Proceedings Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 3 (third annual tall timbers fire ecology conference, Apr 9–10; 1964), Tall Timbers Res Stn, Tallahassee, Florida, pp. 139–83.
  • Long, J. N., 2009. ‘Emulating natural disturbance regimes as a basis for forest management: a North American view’, For Ecology & Manage, 257 (9), pp. 1868–73. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.12.019
  • Lorimer, C. G., 2001. ‘Historical and ecological roles of disturbance in eastern North American forests: 9,000 years of change’, Wildlife Soc Bull, 29 (2), pp. 425–39.
  • Maxwell, H., 1910. ‘The use and abuse of forests by Virginia Indians’, William and Mary Q, 19, pp. 73–103. doi: 10.2307/1921261
  • Mellars, P., 1976. ‘Fire ecology, animal populations and man: a study of some ecological relationships in prehistory’, Proc Prehist Soc, 42, pp. 15–45. doi: 10.1017/S0079497X00010689
  • Moerman, D. E., 1998. Native American Ethnobotany (Portland, Oregon).
  • Munson, P. J., 1986. ‘Hickory silviculture: a subsistence revolution in the prehistory of eastern North America’, Emergent Horticultural Economies of Eastern Woodlands, ed. W. F. Keenan (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill), 101, pp. 1–20.
  • Narumalani, S., Zhou, Y., & Jensen, J. R., 1997. ‘Application of remote sensing and geographic information systems to the delineation and analysis of riparian buffer zones’, Aquatic Bot, 58 (3), pp. 393–409. doi: 10.1016/S0304-3770(97)00048-X
  • North, M. P., & Keeton, W. S., 2008. ‘Emulating natural disturbance regimes: an emerging approach for sustainable forest management’, in Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes, ed. R. Lafortezza, J. Chen, G. Sanesi & Th. R. Crow (Dordrecht, Netherlands), pp. 341–72. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8504-8_19
  • Nowacki, G. J., MacCleery, D. W., & Lake, F. K., 2012. ‘Native Americans, ecosystem development, and historical range of variation’, Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management, ed. J. A. Wiens, G. D. Hauwad, & H. D. Safford (Chichester), pp. 76–91.
  • Outcalt, K. W., 2000. ‘The longleaf pine ecosystem of the South’, Native Plants J, 1, pp. 42–53. doi: 10.3368/npj.1.1.42
  • Peterken, G. F., 1996. Natural Woodland: ecology and conservation in northern temperate regions (Cambridge).
  • Phillips, S. J., Dudik, M., Elith, J., et al., 2009. ‘Sample selection bias and presence-only distribution models: implications for background and pseudo-absence data’, Ecological Appl, 19, pp. 181–97. doi: 10.1890/07-2153.1
  • Phillips, S. J., & Elith, J., 2011. ‘Logistic methods for resource selection functions and presence-only species distribution models’, AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) (San Fransisco).
  • Proosdij, A. S., Sosef, M. S., Wieringa, J. J. & Raes, N., 2016. ‘Minimum required number of specimen records to develop accurate species distribution models’, Ecography, 39 (6), pp. 542–52. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01509
  • R Core Development Team. 2016. ‘R: A language and environment for statistical computing’, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. <www.R-project.org/>
  • Robins, L. E., & Myers, R. L., 1992. ‘Seasonal effects of prescribed burning in Florida: a review’, Tall Timbers Res Stn. Misc Publ No. 8 (Tallahassee Florida).
  • Seidl, R., Fernandes, P. M., Fonseca, T. F., et al., 2011. ‘Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review’, Ecol Modelling, 222 (4), pp. 903–24. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.09.040
  • Smith, B. D., 2006. ‘Eastern North America as an independent center of plant domestication’, Proc Natl Academy Sci, 103 (33), pp. 12223–8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604335103
  • Sprugel, D. G., 1991. ‘Disturbance, equilibrium, and environmental variability: what is “natural” vegetation in a changing environment?’ Biol Conserv, 58 (1), pp. 1–18. doi: 10.1016/0006-3207(91)90041-7
  • Stambaugh, M. C., Guyette, R. P., & Marschall, J. M., 2011. ‘Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) fire scars reveal new details of a frequent fire regime’, J Veg Sci, 22 (6), pp. 1094–1104. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01322.x
  • Stambaugh, M. C., Varne J. M., & Jackson, S. T., 2017. ‘The biogeography of longleaf pine: an interweave of climate, fire, and humans’, in Ecological Restoration of Longleaf Pine, ed. K. Kirkman & S. B. Jack (Broca Raton, Florida), pp. 7–38.
  • Swetnam, T. W., & Betancourt, J. L., 1990. ‘Fire-southern oscillation relations in the southwestern United States’, Science, 249 (4972), pp. 1017–20. doi: 10.1126/science.249.4972.1017
  • Thomas-Van Gundy, M. A., & Nowacki G. J., 2013. ‘The use of witness trees as pyro-indicators for mapping past fire conditions’, For Ecology & Manage, 304, pp. 333–44. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.05.025
  • Thomas-Van Gundy, M. A., & Nowacki G. J., 2016. ‘Landscape-fire relationships inferred from bearing trees in Minnesota’, Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-GRR-160. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. Newton Square, PA. 32 p 160: pp. 1–32.
  • Tulowiecki, S. J., & Larsen, C. P. S., 2015. ‘Native American impacts on past forest composition inferred from species distribution models, Chautauqua County, NY’, Ecological Monogr, 85 (4), pp. 557–81. doi: 10.1890/14-2259.1
  • United States Department of Agriculture [USDA] and National Resources Conservation Service [NRCS]. 2006. Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the United States, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Basin. United States Dep Agriculture Handbook, no. 296.
  • Wagner, C. V., 1978. ‘Age-class distribution and the forest fire cycle’, Canadian J For Res, 8 (2), pp. 220–27. doi: 10.1139/x78-034
  • Ward, G., Hastie, T., Barry, S. C., et al., 2009. ‘Presence-only data and the EM algorithm’, Biometrics, 65, pp. 554–63. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01116.x
  • Waselkov, G. A., 1997. ‘Changing strategies of Indian field location in the early historic Southeas’, in People, Plants, and Landscapes: studies in paleoethnobotany, ed. K. J. Gremillon (Tuscaloosa, Alabama), pp. 179–94.
  • White, M. E., 1988. Georgia’s Indian Heritage: the prehistoric peoples and historic tribes of Georgia (Georgia).
  • Williams, G. W., 2002. ‘Aboriginal use of fire: are there any “natural” plant communities’, USDA Forest Serv (Washington DC).
  • Xiang, W. N., 1996. ‘GIS-based riparian buffer analysis: injecting geographic information into landscape planning’, Landscape & Urban Plann, 34 (1), pp. 1–10. doi: 10.1016/0169-2046(95)00206-5

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.