Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition
2017
Levis, C. | Costa, C. | Bongers, F. | Peña-Claros, M. | Clement, C. | Junqueira, A. | Neves, E. | Tamanaha, E. | Figueiredo, F. | Salomão, R. | Castilho, C. | Magnusson, E. | Phillips, O. | Guevara, E. | Sabatier, Daniel | Molino, Jean-François | López, D. | Mendoza, M. | Pitman, C. | Duque, A. | Vargas, P. Núñez | Zartman, C. | Vasquez, R. | Andrade, A. | Camargo, J., I B | Feldpausch, R. | Laurance, W. | Laurance, F. | Killeen, J. | Nascimento, E. | Montero, C. | Mostacedo, B. | Amaral, I. | Guimarães Vieira, C. | Brienen, R. | Castellanos, H. | Terborgh, J. | Carim, M. | Guimarães, R. | Coelho, L. de Souza | Matos, F. | Wittmann, F. | Mogollón, F. | Damasco, G. | Dávila, N. | García-Villacorta, R. | Coronado, E. | Emilio, T. | Andrade, D. | Schietti, J. | Souza, P. | Targhetta, N. | Comiskey, A. | Marimon, S. | Marimon, H. | Neill, D. | Alonso, A. | Arroyo, L. | Carvalho, F. | Souza, C. | Dallmeier, F. | Pansonato, M. | Duivenvoorden, F. | Fine, A. | Stevenson, R. | Araujo-Murakami, A. | Aymard C., C. | Baraloto, C. | Amaral, D. | Engel, Julien | Henkel, W. | Maas, P. | Petronelli, Pascal | Revilla, J. | Stropp, J. | Daly, D. | Gribel, R. | Paredes, M. | Silveira, M. | Thomas-Caesar, R. | Baker, R. | da Silva, F. | Ferreira, L. | Peres, C. | Silman, M. | Cerón, C. | Valverde, C. | Di Fiore, A. | Jimenez, M. | Mora, C. | Toledo, M. | Barbosa, M. | Matos, C. | Arboleda, C. | Farias, E. | Fuentes, A. | Guillaumet, J. | Jørgensen, P. | Malhi, Y. | Andrade, I. | Phillips, F. | Prieto, A. | Rudas, A. | Ruschel, A. | Silva, N. | von Hildebrand, P. | Vos, A. | Zent, E. | Zent, S. | Cintra, B. | Nascimento, M. | Oliveira, A. | Ramírez-Angulo, H. | Ramos, F. | Rivas, G. | Schöngart, J. | Sierra, R. | Tirado, M. | van Der Heijden, G. | Torre, E. | Wang, O. | Young, R. | Baider, C. | Cano, A. | Farfan-Rios, W. | Ferreira, C. | Hoffman, B. | Mendoza, C. | Mesones, I. | Torre, A. | Medina, M. | van Andel, R. | Villarroel, D. | Zagt, R. | Alexiades, M. | Balslev, H. | Garcia-Cabrera, K. | Gonzales, T. | Hernandez, L. | Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I. | Manzatto, A. | Milliken, W. | Cuenca, W. | Pansini, S. | Pauletto, D. | Arevalo, F. | Costa, F. | Sampaio, F. | Giraldo, E. | Sandoval, E. | Gamarra, L. | Vela, C. | ter Steege, H. | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG) | University of Iceland [Reykjavik] | Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Pergamino, Argentina | Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]) | Chercheur indépendant | Observatorio Nacional [Rio de Janeiro] | Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) ; Universitat de València (UV) | Herbario Nacional del Ecuador ; Herbario Nacional del Ecuador | Applied Tumor Virology ; German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg] (DKFZ) | Museo Noel Kempff Mercado ; Museo Noel Kempff Mercado | Neuro-Dol (Neuro-Dol) ; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020]) | Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) | Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (UMR ECOFOG) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AgroParisTech-Université de Guyane (UG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA) | Departamento de Ciências da Natureza ; Departamento de Ciências da Natureza | Central Science Laboratory | Association Euratom/CFN/IST ; IST | CERN [Genève] | Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 (UMET) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Dipartimento di Scienze degli Alimenti ; Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma (UNIPR) | Hôpital Erasme [Bruxelles] (ULB) ; Faculté de Médecine [Bruxelles] (ULB) ; Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)-Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) | Oxford University Centre for the Environment (OUCE) ; University of Oxford | Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering [Sevilla] (ISA) | Instituto de Ciencias Naturales ; Instituto de Ciencias Naturales | Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT) ; Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | inconnu ; Inconnu | Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) ; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | University of Adelaide | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) | Universidad de Los Andes [Mérida, Venezuela] (ULA) | Universidad de Salamanca | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM) | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. The marks of prehistoric human societies on tropical forests can still be detected today. Levis et al. performed a basin-wide comparison of plant distributions, archaeological sites, and environmental data. Plants domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than other species. Furthermore, forests close to archaeological sites often have a higher abundance and richness of domesticated species. Thus, modern-day Amazonian tree communities across the basin remain largely structured by historical human use.Science, this issue p. 925The 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.
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