As climate change leads to drier and warmer conditions in semi-arid regions, growing
resource-intensive C3 and C4 crops will become more challenging. Such crops will be …

Abstract Background and Scope Agaves played a central role as multi-use plants providing
food, fibre and beverage to pre-contact and historical Mesoamerican cultures. However …

This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority
research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews …

With more than 200 species, the genus Agave is one of the most interesting and complex
groups of plants in the world, considering for instance its great diversity and adaptations …

Ethnobotany is a multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary research field concerned with the study
of interactions between people and plants throughout time and different cultural and …

Agave cupreata and Agave potatorum are semelparous species distributed on dry tropical
forests in south Mexico. Extraction of reproductive individuals for spirits production has …

Forestry systems in Mexico are examples of traditional management of land and biodiversity
that integrates the use, conservation and restoration of forest elements. Current in situ …

Mexico is a megadiverse country, but less than 54% of its original vegetation still remains. In
particular Mexican deserts and arid and semiarid ecosystems harbor a large number of …

Agave inaequidens and A. cupreata are wild species with some populations under incipient
management, while A. hookeri is exclusively cultivated, used for producing the fermented …

Human cultures that occupied the area currently known as Mesoamerica developed a broad
repertory of technologies for managing the biotic resources and ecosystems of the …