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Science 16 April 1982:
Vol. 216. no. 4543, pp. 298 - 299
DOI: 10.1126/science.216.4543.298
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Ramón and Maya Ruins: An Ecological, Not an Economic, Relation

J. D. H. LAMBERT 1 and J. T. ARNASON 2

1 Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIS 5B6
2 Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5

Economically important trees such as ramón have been shown to have a high density in the civic-ceremonial core zone of ancient Maya ruins. The distribution of such trees is probably the result of their requirements for growth and reproduction, which are optimal on the ruins, and not because they are the descendants of trees planted by the Maya aristocracy.

Submitted on July 21, 1981
Revised on November 2, 1981

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