| Title: |
Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition |
| Authors: |
Levis, C; Costa, FRC; Bongers, F; Peña-Claros, M; Clement, CR; Junqueira, AB; Neves, EG; Tamanaha, EK; Figueiredo, FOG; Salomão, RP; Castilho, CV; Magnusson, WE; Phillips, OL; Guevara, JE; Sabatier, D; Molino, J-F; López, DC; Mendoza, AM; Pitman, NCA; Duque, A; Vargas, PN; Zartman, CE; Vasquez, R; Andrade, A; Camargo, JL; Feldpausch, TR; Laurance, SGW; Laurance, WF; Killeen, TJ; Nascimento, HEM; Montero, JC; Mostacedo, B; Amaral, IL; Guimarães Vieira, IC; Brienen, R; Castellanos, H; Terborgh, J; Carim, MDJV; Guimarães, JRDS; Coelho, LDS; Matos, FDDA; Wittmann, F; Mogollón, HF; Damasco, G; Dávila, N; García-Villacorta, R; Coronado, ENH; Emilio, T; Filho, DDAL; Schietti, J; Souza, P; Targhetta, N; Comiskey, JA; Marimon, BS; Marimon, B-H; Neill, D; Alonso, A; Arroyo, L; Carvalho, FA; de Souza, FC; Dallmeier, F; Pansonato, MP; Duivenvoorden, JF; Fine, PVA; Stevenson, PR; Araujo-Murakami, A; Aymard C, GA; Baraloto, C; do Amaral, DD; Engel, J; Henkel, TW; Maas, P; Petronelli, P; Revilla, JDC; Stropp, J; Daly, D; Gribel, R; Paredes, MR; Silveira, M; Thomas-Caesar, R; Baker, TR; da Silva, NF; Ferreira, LV; Peres, CA; Silman, MR; Cerón, C; Valverde, FC; Di Fiore, A; Jimenez, EM; Mora, MCP; Toledo, M; Barbosa, EM; Bonates, LCDM; Arboleda, NC; Farias, EDS; Fuentes, A; Guillaumet, J-L; Jørgensen, PM; Malhi, Y; de Andrade Miranda, IP; Phillips, JF; Prieto, A; Rudas, A; Ruschel, AR; Silva, N; von Hildebrand, P; Vos, VA; Zent, EL; Zent, S; Cintra, BBL; Nascimento, MT; Oliveira, AA; Ramirez-Angulo, H; Ramos, JF; Rivas, G; Schöngart, J; Sierra, R; Tirado, M; van der Heijden, G; Torre, EV; Wang, O; Young, KR; Baider, C; Cano, A; Farfan-Rios, W; Ferreira, C; Hoffman, B; Mendoza, C; Mesones, I; Torres-Lezama, A; Medina, MNU; van Andel, TR; Villarroel, D; Zagt, R; Alexiades, MN; Balslev, H; Garcia-Cabrera, K; Gonzales, T; Hernandez, L; Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I; Manzatto, AG; Milliken, W; Cuenca, WP; Pansini, S; Pauletto, D; Arevalo, FR; Reis, NFC; Sampaio, AF; Giraldo, LEU; Sandoval, EHV; Gamarra, LV; Vela, CIA; Ter Steege, H |
| Publisher Information: |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
University of Exeter: Open Research Exeter (ORE) |
| Subject Terms: |
Brazil; Domestication; Forests; History; Ancient; Humans; Trees |
| Description: |
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from AAAS via the DOI in this record. ; There is another ORE record for this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34606 ; 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. ; This work was supported by Asociación para la Conservación de la Cuenca Amazónica/Amazon Conservation Association (ACCA/ACA); Alberta Mennega Stichting; ALCOA Suriname; Banco de la República; Centre for Agricultural Research in Suriname (CELOS Suriname); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) (Plano Nacional de Pós-Graduação); CAPES Ciencia sem Fronteiras (PVE 177/2012); Conselho Nacional de Desenvovimento Científico e Tecnológico of Brazil (CNPq) Projects CNPq/FAPEAM–INCT CENBAM (573721/2008-4), PPBio Manaus (CNPq 558318/2009-6), CNPq–PPBio-AmOc (457544/2012-0), CNPq–PQ (304088/2011-0 and 306368/2013-7), Hidroveg Universal CNPq (473308/2009-6), Projeto Cenarios FINEP/CNPq (52.0103/2009-2), CNPq–SWE (201573/2014-8), CNPq–SWE (207400/2014-8), CNPq Universal (307807-2009-6), CNPq Universal (479599/2008-4), CNPq Universal 458210/2014-5, and CNPq Universal 303851/2015-5; Colciencias; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas ... |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
All data described in the paper are present in the main text and the supplementary materials, and custom R scripts used in analyses are provided in the supplementary materials. Additional data related to this paper can be obtained by contacting authors.; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28254935; http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34606; 10871/34606; http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31028; Science |
| DOI: |
10.1126/science.aal0157 |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31028; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal0157 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.8CFEE7F0 |
| Database: |
BASE |