Evidence for the Postconquest Demographic Collapse of the Americas in Historical CO 2 Levels

• Main Authors: Faust, Franz Xaver, Gnecco, Cristóbal, Mannstein, Hermann, Stamm, Jörg
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2006
• Subjects: Fernerkundung der Atmosphäre; Law Dome; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/43708/; https://elib.dlr.de/43708/1/Faust_et_al_2006.pdf; http://EarthInteractions.org

This article promotes the hypothesis that the massive demographic collapse of the native populations of the Americas triggered by the European colonization brought about the abandonment of large expanses of agricultural fields soon recovered by forests, which in due turn fixed atmospheric CO 2 in si...