Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

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Levis, Carolina, Costa, Flávia R.C., Bongers, Frans, Peña-Claros, Marielos, Clement, Charles R., Junqueira, André B., Neves, Eduardo G., Tamanaha, Eduardo K., Figueiredo, Fernando O.G., Salomão, Rafael P., Castilho, Carolina V., Magnusson, William E., Phillips, Oliver L., Guevara, Juan Ernesto, Sabatier, Daniel, Molino, Jean-François, Cárdenas López, Dairon, Monteagudo Mendoza, Abel, Pitman, Nigel C.A., Duque, Alvaro, Núñez Vargas, Percy, Zartman, Charles Eugene, Vasquez, Rodolfo, Andrade, Ana, Camargo, José Luís, Feldpausch, Ted R., Laurance, Susan G.W., Laurance, William F., Killeen, Timothy J., Mendonça Nascimento, Henrique Eduardo, Montero, Juan Carlos, Mostacedo, Bonifacio, Leão Amaral, Iêda, van der Heijden, Geertje, Guimarães Vieira, Ima Célia, van der Heijden, Geertje and ter Steege, Hans (2017) Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. Science, 355 (6328). pp. 925-931. ISSN 1095-9203

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Abstract

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 pre-Columbian peoples. Domesticated species are five times more likely to be hyperdominant than non-domesticated species. Across the basin the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increases in forests on and around archaeological sites. In southwestern and eastern Amazonia distance to archaeological sites strongly influences the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species. Our analyses indicate that modern tree communities in Amazonia are structured to an important extent by a long history of plant domestication by Amazonian peoples.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/848161
Additional Information: This is the author’s version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science on 3rd of March, vol. 355, no. 6328, p. 925-931 DOI:10.1126/science.aal0157 94 authors in total
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Geography
Identification Number: 10.1126/science.aal0157
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2017 11:29
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 18:36
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/40261

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