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[13] McNeil, L. Cameron. “Deforestation, Agroforestry and sustainable land management practices among the Classic Period Maya.” Quaternary International, 249, (2012): 19-30.
[14] Palm, Cheryl A., Michael J. Swift, and Paul L. Woomer. "Soil biological dynamics in slash-and-burn agriculture." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 58.1 (1996): 61-74.
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[16] Pope, Kevin O., Bruce H. Dahlin. “Ancient Maya Wetland Agriculture: New insights from Ecological and Remote Sensory Research.” Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 16, No. 1, (1989): 87-106
[17] Puleston, Dennis. “Maya Subsistence.” New York: Academic Press Inc., 1982.
[18] Sluyter, Andrew. “Intensive Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica: Space, Time, and Form.” Annals of the Association of American Geographies, Vol. 84, No. 4 (Dec. 1994): 557-584.
[19] Soto, B., et al. "An experimental study of the influence of traditional slash-and-burn practices on soil erosion." Catena 24.1 (1995): 13-23.
[20] Tinker, P. Bernard, John SI Ingram, and Sten Struwe. "Effects of slash-and-burn agriculture and deforestation on climate change." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 58.1 (1996): 13-22.
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[23] Lerner, Brenda, Wilmoth, and Ed. K. Lee Lerner. "Slash-and-burn agriculture." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. 4th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2008. Science In Context. Web. 5 May 2013.
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