Persistent effects of pre Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

The extent to which pre-Columbian societies altered Amazonian landscapes is hotly debated. We performed a basin-wide analysis of pre-Columbian impacts on Amazonian forests by overlaying known archaeological sites in Amazonia with the distributions and abundances of 85 woody species domesticated by p...

• Main Author: Levis, C. (author)
• Other Authors: Costa, Flavia (author), Bongers, Frans (author), Peña Claros, M. (author), R. Clement C. (author), Junqueira, André (author), G. Neves, E. (author), Figueiredo, Fernando (author), P. Salomao (author), Castilho, Carolina (author), Magnusson, William (author), Phillips, Oliver (author), Savatier, Daniel (author), Molino, Jean Francois (author), Pitman, Nigel (author), Peñuela Mora, María Cristina (author)
• Format: article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Amazonian; forests; Amazonian forests; domesticated species
• Online Access: http://repositorio.ikiam.edu.ec/jspui/handle/RD_IKIAM/138; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0157