Bibliography on Savannas of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

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Savanna East of Nakum. Photo was taken with an iPhone 13ProMax in Nov 16, 2021 By Nicholas Hellmuth.

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PDF, Articles, Books on Savannas of Guatemala, Belize, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Yucatan

• BRENNER, M., LEYDEN, B. and M. W. BINFORD
• 1990
• Recent sedimentary histories of shallow lakes in the guatemalan savannas. J Paleolimnol 4, 239–252.
  
  Available Online:
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00239697#citeas

• COLÓN, P., BENJAMÍN, T., PAZO, D., PINIERO, M. and M. AGUILAR
• 2009
• Conocimiento local sobre la quema en sistemas silvopastoriles de El Petén, Guatemala. Agroforestería en las Americas. No. 47. Pages 27-35.
  
  Note: Information on savanna vegetation
  
  Available Online:
  http://201.207.189.89/bitstream/handle/11554/5943/Conocimiento_
  local.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

• LAPORTE, J. P., MEJÍA, H. E. and G. VALLE
• 2009
• Las Sabanas del Centro de Petén, Guatemala: Un Panorama sobre el Asentamiento Arqueológico. Vol. 31, No., pp. 61-69.
  
  Available Online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/23759282

• STUART, L. C.
• 1995
• A contribution to a knowledge of the herpetology of a portion of the Savanna, region of Central Petén, Guatemala.
  
  Available Online:
  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/56274/MP029.pdf;sequence=1

• WAHL, D. B., ESTRADA-Belli, F. and L. ANDERSON
• 2012
• Maíz, clima y fuego en la región de Holmul, Petén, Guatemala. XXVI Simposio de investigaciones arqueológicas en Guatemala. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología.
  
  Available Online:
  www.asociaciontikal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Simp26-49-Wahl-Estrada-Belli-y-Anderson.pdf

Savannas of Belize

• FARRUGIA, F. T.
• 2004
• A floristic description of a neotropical coastal savanna in Belize. Miami University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
  
  Available Online:
  www.proquest.com/openview/544ef819e6666e88269d244a1ecc1d8b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

• GOODWIN, Z. A., LOPEZ, G. N., SUART, N., BRIGEWATER, S. G. M., HASTON, E. M., CAMERON, I. D., MICHELANKIS, D., RATTER, J. A., FURLEY, P. A., KAY, E., WHITEFOORD, C., SOLOMON, J., LLOYD, A. J. and D. J. HARRIS
• 2013
• A checklist of the vascular plants of the lowland savannas of Belize, Central America. Phitotaxa 101.
  
  Available Online:
  www.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.101.1.1

• HICKS, J., GOODWIN, Z. A., BRIDGEWATER, S. G. M., HARRIS, D. J. and P. A. FURLEY
• 2011
• A floristic description of the San Pastor Savanna, Belize, Central America. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 68 (2), 273-296.
  
  Available Online:
  www.cambridge.org/core/journals/edinburgh-journal-of-botany/article/abs/floristic-description-of-the-san-pastor-savanna-belize-central-america/34BC69C99BA00371C5A0D976C79B4942

• IBÁÑEZ, A., RATTER, J. and P. FURLEY
• 2002
• Vegetation classification and floristics of the Savannas and associates wetlands of the Rio Bravo conservation and management area Belize. Edinburgh Journal of Botany, 59(3), 421-442.
  
  Available Online:
  www.cambridge.org/core/journals/edinburgh-journal-of-botany/article/abs/vegetation-classification-and-floristics-of-the-savannas-and-associated-wetlands-of-the-rio-bravo-conservation-and-management-area-belize/49CC6B627770ECB6A051C34DA5527B78

• KELLMAN, M.
• 1979
• Soil Enrichment by Neotropical Savanna Trees. Journal of Ecology Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 565-577.
  
  Available Online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/2259112

• KELLMAN, M. and K. MIYANISHI
• 1982
• Forest Seedling Establishment in Neotropical Savannas: Observations and Experiments in the Mountain Pine Ridge Savanna, Belize. Journal of Biogeography. Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 193-206.
  
  Available Online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/2844663

• KELLMAN, M. and K. SANMUGADAS
• 1985
• Nutrient Retention by Savanna Ecosystems: I. Retention in the Absence of Fire. Journal of Ecology, Vol. 73, No. 3, pp. 935-951.
  
  Available Online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/2260159

• KELLMAN, M.
• 1985
• Nutrient Retention by Savanna Ecosystems: III. Response to Artificial Loading.
  
  Available Online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/2260159

• KELLMAN, M. and R. PITHER
• 2002
• Tree species diversity in small, tropical riparian forest fragments in Belize, Central America. Biodiversity and Conservation 11, 1623–1636.
  
  Available Online:
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1016831916994#citeas

• LUAUGHLIN, D. C.
• 2002
• Flora of the Pine Savanna at Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize. Caribbean Journal of Science, Vol. 38, No. 1-2, 151-155.
  
  Available Online:
  www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Laughlin/
  publication/228409398_Flora_of_the_pine_savanna_
  at_Monkey_Bay_Wildlife_Sanctuary_Belize/links/02bfe
  50dbbbf1da134000000/Flora-of-the-pine-savanna-at-Monkey-
  Bay-Wildlife-Sanctuary-Belize.pdf

• WELLS, G., STUART, N., FURLEY, P. and C. M. RYAN
• 2018
• Ecosystem service analysis in marginal agricultural lands: A case study in Belize. Ecosystem Services, Vol 32, part A, pages 70-77.

Savannas of Chiapas

• BLAKE, K. L.
• 2008
• Life and times in a late formative and classic period. Swamp forest in Chiapas, México. Washington State University. Department of Anthropology.
  
  Note: Modern day savanna of Chiapas on page 27.
  
  Available Online:
  www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2008/K_Blake_032708.pdf

• BREEDLOVE, D. E.
• 1981
• Flora of Chiapas. Part 1: Introduction to the flora of Chiapas. The California Academy of Sciences.
  
  Available Online:
  https://archive.org/details/florachiapas00bree/page/n3/mode/2up

• MEDELLIN, R. A. and O. GAONA
• 2006
• Seed Dispersal by Bats and Birds in Forest and Disturbed Habitats of Chiapas, Mexico. Biotropica, Volume 31, Issue 3 p. 478-485.
  
  Available Online:
  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00390.x

• RODRÍGUEZ, D., MARTÍNEZ, P., PULIDO, J., MARTÍNEZ, P. and J. CRUZ
• 2020
• Combustibles, comportamiento del fuego y emisiones en un pastizal y una sabana artificiales en Chiapas, México. Rev. biol. trop vol.68 n.2.
  
  Available Online:
  https://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442020000200641&script=sci_arttext

Savannas of Tabasco

• MALDONADO, M. N., GRANDE, D. J., FUENTES, E. E., HERNÁNDEZ, S., PÉREZ, F. and A. GÓMEZ
• 2008
• Los sistemas silvopastoriles de la región tropical húmeda de México: El caso de Tabasco. Zootecnia Trop. Vol.26, No. 3.
  
  Available Online:
  http://ve.scielo.org/scielo.php?pid=S0798-72692008000300032&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt

• MARTÍNEZ, P., DE LA CRUZ, M, PALMA, D. and H. MEGIA
• 2019
• Efecto del cambio de uso de suelo sobre las propiedades edáficas en La Sabana, Huimanguillo, Tabasco, México. Agroproductividad, Vol. 12, Issue 7, p. 95-100.
  
  Available Online:
  https://web.a.ebscohost.com/abstract?direct=true&profile=
  ehost&scope=site&authtype=crawler&jrnl=24487546&AN=
  138059938&h=F4cwkE6llpC9xDj3PcEQCPMCaQRJLbKJHS
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Savannas of Campeche

• VÁSQUEZ, M.
• 2001
• Etnoecología chontal de Tabasco, México. Etnoecológica 6 (8): 42-60.
  
  Available Online:
  https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/34501064/Vasquez-
  Davila_2011_Etnoecologia_chontal_de_Tabasco_Mexico-with
  -cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1628708235&Signature=Cf0iKBquA
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  -p3wKfvSvfwCRU9KwjLxy1DGUNwsPAgvzXldZSFqmiBzHPVyxWljsriI
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• VÁRGUEZ, C., ORTÍZ, J., GARRIDO, J. and GARCÍA, G.
• 2012
• Flora vascular de las sabanas de Xmabén, Hopelchén, Campeche, México. Polibotánica No. 34.
  
  Available Online:
  www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1405-27682012000200001

Savannas of Quintana Roo

• AMADOR, F. E.
• 2006
• Sociedades sabaneras: Estudio cerámico de la región Yalahau en el nororiente de Quintana Roo. En XIX Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2005 (editado por J.P. Laporte, B. Arroyo y H. Mejía), pp.524-531. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala (versión digital).
  
  Available Online:
  www.asociaciontikal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/48_-_Amador.05_-_Digital.pdf

• DE LOS ÁNGELES LA TORRE, M. and G. A. ISLEBE
• 2003
• Traditional ecological knowledge and use of vegetation in southeastern Mexico: a case study from Solferino, Quintana Roo. Biodiversity and Conservation 12, 2455–2476.
  
  Available Online:
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1025861014392#citeas

• GARCÍA, S., PALMA, D. J., CRUZ, J., ORTIZ, C. F., LAGUNES, L. C., ORTIZ, A. I., CÓRDOVA, S. and S. SALGADO
• 2017
• Los suelos ácidos de la sabana de Huimanguillo, Tabasco, México. Agroproductividad: Vol. 10, Núm. 12, pp: 16-21

• LEONARD, Daniel
• 2010
• Resultados preliminares de la primera fase del reconocimiento de las sabanas Yalahau. En XXIII Simposio de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en Guatemala, 2009 (editado por B. Arroyo, A. Linares y L. Paiz), pp.787-803. Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología, Guatemala (versión digital).
  
  Available Online:
  www.asociaciontikal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/59.09-Leonard_09.pdf

• SCHULTZ, G. P.
• 2005
• Vascular flora of the El Edén Ecological Reserve, Quintana Roo, Mexico. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 132(2), 311-322.
  
  Available Online:
  https://bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-the-torrey-botanical-society/volume-132/issue-2/1095-5674(2005)132[311:VFOTEE]2.0.CO;2/Vascular-flora-of-the-El-Ed%C3%A9n-Ecological-Reserve-Quintana-Roo/10.3159/1095-5674(2005)132[311:VFOTEE]2.0.CO;2.short

Savannas of Yucatan

• DUNO DE STEFANO, R., RAMÍREZ, I., TAPIA, J. L., HERNÁNDEZ, S., LORENA, L., CETZAL, W., MÉNDEZ, N., ZAMORA, P., GUTIÉRREZ, C. and G. CARNEVALI
• 2018
• Aspectos generales de la flora vascular de la Península de Yucatán Mexicana

• ORTÍZ, J. J., TÚN, J., GARCÍA, G. and I. ARNELAS
• 2014
• Flora fanerogámica de dos enclaves de sabana de la península de Yucatán, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad. Volume 85, Issue 3, Pages 665-676.
  
  Available Online:
  www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1870345314701733

• OSORIO, M., CASTELÁN, M., GÓMEZ, J. F., SALGADO, S. and L. HERNÁNDEZ
• 2013
• Hongo microrrícicos arbusculares de suelos de sabana en Tabasco, Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, vol. 16, núm. 2, pp. 171-182 Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Mérida, Yucatán, México.
  
  Available Online:
  https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/939/93928324006.pdf

• PÉREZ, J. E., DUNO DE STEFANO, R., FERNÁNDEZ, G., RAMÍREZ, I., MÉNDEZ, N., ZAMORA, P., GUTIÉRREZ, C. and W. CETZAL
• 2017
• El conocimiento florístico de la Península de Yucatán, México. Polibotánica, No.44.
  
  Available Online:
  www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?pid=S1405-27682017000200039&script=sci_arttext

   

First posted February, 2022.
Written by Vivian Hurtado and Dr Nicholas Hellmuth