**Appendix A: Favored Trees**

The Maya forest is a garden supplying all the requirements of everyday life. A search through the literature on Maya land use, the milpa cycle and plant characteristics, reveals a conservation ethic that bears on a world of uses that include the following: beverage, construction, dye, fiber, food, foraging, fuel, fumigant, furniture, gum, latex, medicine, oil, ornament, poison, products, resin, ritual, smoking, spice, tannin. The dominant trees of the Maya forest are show in bold.

The online link for the supplementary table Appendix A: https://cdn.intechopen. com/public/docs/266251.xlsx
