Native American Historical Demography. A Critical Bibliography

Ecological responses to land use change in the face of European colonization of Haytí island

“…The regionally emergent pattern of recovery and expansion of the valley-, coastal-and mountainous-forests was linked to the depopulation of northern Haytí driven by diseases that decimated the indigenous population (Dobyns, 1976). Remaining communities were forcedly displaced to inland mining areas, a product of the imposition of new forced labour regimes (Cass a, 2003).…”

“…gold and plant domesticates like maize, tobacco and manioc) throughout the globe (Crosby, 1972). In the Caribbean, and then the rest of the Americas, the suite of European arrival events caused the rapid spread of diseases that drastically affected indigenous communities (Dobyns, 1976;Koch et al, 2019). Such changes were powerful drivers of landscape transformation, yet the degree and extent of pre-and post-Columbian human impacts and the resulting trends of change in Caribbean ecosystems are unclear.…”