Erosion, Geological History, and Indigenous Agriculture: A Tale of Two Valleys

• Main Authors: Peter M Vitousek, Oliver A Chadwick, George Hilley, Patrick V Kirch, Thegn N Ladefoged
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Young Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1053.3729; http://pangea.stanford.edu/%7Ehilley/REPRINTS/Vitouseketal_Ecosystems2010.pdf

ABSTRACT Irrigated pondfields and rainfed field systems represented alternative pathways of agricultural intensification that were unevenly distributed across the Hawaiian Archipelago prior to European contact, with pondfields on wetter soils and older islands and rainfed systems on fertile, moderat...