Bibliography on Savannas of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.

Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth

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Bibliography on Savannas of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

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

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=
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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
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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