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Milpa References

1. Benjamín, T.J., P.I. Montanez, J.J.M. Jiménez and A.R. Gillespie. 2001. Carbon, water and nutrient flux in Maya homegardens in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico.  Agroforestry Systems 53:103-111.

2. Caamal-Maldonado, J.A., J.J. Jimenez-Osornio, A. Torres-Barragan, and A.L. Anaya. 2001. The use of allelopathic legume cover and mulch species for weed control in cropping systems. Agronomy Journal 93:27-36.

3. Castillo-Caamal, J.B., J.J. Jimenez-Osornio, A. Lopez-Perez, W. Aguilar-Cordero, and A.M. Castillo-Caamal. 2003. Feeding Mucuna beans to small ruminants of Mayan farmers in the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico. Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems 1:113-117.

4. Ceccon, E., I. Olmsted, C. Vazques-Yanes, and J. Campo. 2002. Vegetation and soil properties in two tropical dry forests of differing regeneration status in Yucatán. Agrociencia 36:245-254.

5. Ceccon, E., P. Huante, and J. Campo. 2003. Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on the survival and recruitment of seedlings of dominant tree species in two abandoned tropical dry forests in Yucatán, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management. 182:387-402.

6. Dorward, A., S. Anderson, S. Clark, B. Keane and J. Moguel. 2001. Asset functions and livelihood strategies: a framework for pro-poor analysis, policy and practice. EAAE seminar on livelihoods and rural poverty.

7. Kessler, C.D.J. 1990. An Agronomic Evaluation of Jackbean Canavalia ensiformis in Yucatán Mexico i. Plant Density. Experimental Agriculture 26:11-22.

8. Keys, E. 2004. Commercial agriculture as creative destruction or destructive creation: a case study of chili cultivation and plant-pest disease in the southern Yucatán peninsula. Land Degradation & Development 15:397-409.

9. Faust, B. and R. Bilsborrow. Maya culture, population and the environment on the Yucatán peninsula. In Population, development and the environment on the Yucatán Peninsula: from ancient Maya to 2030. Lutz, W., L. Prieto and W. Sanderson (eds). International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: Laxenburg; 73-107.

10. GHKSAR. 2003. Climatalogical Normals of Mérida. The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (GHKSAR).

11. Gonzalez-Iturbe, J.A., I. Olmsted, and F. Tun-Dzul. 2002. Tropical dry forest recovery after long term Henequen (sisal, Agave fourcroydes Lem.) plantation in northern Yucatán, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management. 167:67-82.

12. INEGI. 2000. Anuario estadistico de Yucatán Aguascalientes, Mexico.

13. Lopez-Forment, I. S. 1998. Changes in Diversity in the Process of Milpa Intensification in the Henequen Zone in Yucatán, Mexico. Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois.

14. Mizrahi, A., J.M. Ramos-Prado, and J.J. Jimenez-Osornio. 1997. Composition, structure, and management potential of secondary dry tropical vegetation in two abandoned henequen plantations of Yucatán, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 96:273-282.

15. Puig, H. 1994. Agroforestry in Mexico: Can the past be a guarantee for the future? Experientia 50:621-625.

16. Rico-Gray, V., and J.G. Garcia-Franco. 1992. Vegetation and soil seed bank of successional stages in tropical lowland deciduous forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 3:617-624.

17. Shang, C., and H. Tiessen. 2003. Soil organic C sequestration and stabilization in karstic soils of Yucatán. Biogeochemistry. 62:177-196.

18. Sprague, M.A., W.J. Hanna, and W.E. Chappell. 1978. Alternatives to a monoculture of henequen in Yucatán: the agriculture, climate, soil, and weed control. Interciencia 3:285-290.

19. Teran, S. and C.H. Rasmussen. 1995. Genetic diversity and agricultural strategy in 16th century and present day Yucatecan milpa agriculture. Biodiversity and Conservation 4:363-381.

20. Turner, B.L. and C.H. Miksicek. 1983. Economic plant species associated with prehistoric agriculture in the Maya lowlands. Economic Botany 38(2):179-193.

21. Weisbach, C., H. Tiessen, and J.J. Jimenez-Orsonio. 2002. Soil fertility during shifting cultivation in the tropical karst soils of Yucatán. Agronomie 22:253-263.