Authors
Carolina Levis, Flávia RC Costa, Frans Bongers, Marielos Peña-Claros, Charles R Clement, André B Junqueira, Eduardo G Neves, Eduardo K Tamanaha, Fernando OG Figueiredo, Rafael P Salomão, Carolina V Castilho, William E Magnusson, Oliver L Phillips, Juan Ernesto Guevara, Daniel Sabatier, J-F Molino, D Cárdenas López, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Nigel CA Pitman, Alvaro Duque, P Núñez Vargas, Charles Eugene Zartman, Rodolfo Vasquez, Ana Andrade, José Luís Camargo, Ted R Feldpausch, Susan GW Laurance, William F Laurance, Timothy J Killeen, HE Mendonça Nascimento, Juan Carlos Montero, Bonifacio Mostacedo, Iêda Leão Amaral, Ima Célia Guimarães Vieira, Roel Brienen, Hernán Castellanos, John Terborgh, M de Jesus Veiga Carim, JR da Silva Guimarães, L de Souza Coelho, FD de Almeida Matos, Florian Wittmann, Hugo F Mogollón, Gabriel Damasco, Nallarett Davila, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Euridice N Honorio Coronado, Thaise Emilio, D de Andrade Lima Filho, Juliana Schietti, Priscila Souza, Natalia Targhetta, James A Comiskey, Beatriz S Marimon, B-H Marimon Jr, David Neill, Alfonso Alonso, Luzmila Arroyo, Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Fernanda Coelho de Souza, Francisco Dallmeier, Marcelo Petratti Pansonato, Joost F Duivenvoorden, Paul VA Fine, Pablo R Stevenson, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Gerardo A Aymard C, Christopher Baraloto, Dário Dantas do Amaral, Julien Engel, Terry W Henkel, Paul Maas, Pascal Petronelli, JD Cardenas Revilla, Juliana Stropp, Doug Daly, Rogerio Gribel, M Ríos Paredes, Marcos Silveira, Raquel Thomas-Caesar, Tim R Baker, Naara Ferreira da Silva, Leandro V Ferreira, Carlos A Peres, Miles R Silman, Carlos Cerón, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Anthony Di Fiore, Eliana M Jimenez, MC Peñuela Mora, Marisol Toledo, Edelcilio Marques Barbosa, LC de Matos Bonates, Nicolás Castaño Arboleda, E de Sousa Farias, Alfredo Fuentes, J-L Guillaumet, P Møller Jørgensen, Yadvinder Malhi, Ires Paula de Andrade Miranda, Juan Fernando Phillips, Adriana Prieto, Agustín Rudas, AR Ruschel, Natalino Silva, Patricio Von Hildebrand, Vincent A Vos, Eglée L Zent, Stanford Zent, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Marcelo Trindade Nascimento, Alexandre A Oliveira, Hirma Ramírez-Angulo, José Ferreira Ramos, Gonzalo Rivas, Jochen Schöngart, Rodrigo Sierra, Milton Tirado, Geertje van der Heijden, Emilio Vilanova Torre, Ophelia Wang, Kenneth R Young, Cláudia Baider, Angela Cano, William Farfan-Rios, Cid Ferreira, Bruce Hoffman, Casimiro Mendoza, Italo Mesones, Armando Torres-Lezama, María Natalia Umaña Medina, Tinde R Van Andel, Daniel Villarroel, Roderick Zagt, Miguel N Alexiades, Henrik Balslev, Karina Garcia-Cabrera, Therany Gonzales, Lionel Hernandez, Isau Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, Angelo Gilberto Manzatto, William Milliken, Walter Palacios Cuenca, Susamar Pansini, Daniela Pauletto, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, NF Costa Reis, Adeilza Felipe Sampaio, LE Urrego Giraldo, EH Valderrama Sandoval
Publication date
2017/3/3
Journal
Science
Volume
355
Issue
6328
Pages
925-931
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Description
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 than nondomesticated species to be hyperdominant. Across the basin, the relative abundance and richness of domesticated species increase 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.
Scholar articles
C Levis, FRC Costa, F Bongers, M Peña-Claros… - Science, 2017