@Article{Levis_etal2017,
author="Levis, C.
and Costa, F.R.C.
and Bongers, F.
and Pe{\~n}a-Claros, M.
and Clement, C.R.
and Junqueira, A.B.
and Neves, E.G.
and Tamanaha, E.K.
and Figueiredo, F.O.G.
and Salom{\~a}o, R.P.
and Castilho, C.V.
and Magnusson, W.E.
and Phillips, O.L.
and Guevara, J.E.
and Sabatier, D.
and Molino, J.-F.
and L{\'o}pez, D.C.
and Mendoza, A.M.
and Pitman, N.C.A.
and Duque, A.
and Vargas, P.N.
and Zartman, C.E.
and Vasquez, R.
and Andrade, A.
and Camargo, J.L.
and Feldpausch, T.R.
and Laurance, S.G.W.
and Laurance, W.F.
and Killeen, T.J.
and Nascimento, H.E.M.
and Montero, J.C.
and Mostacedo, B.
and Amaral, I.L.
and Guimar{\~a}es Vieira, I.C.
and Brienen, R.
and Castellanos, H.
and Terborgh, J.
and Carim, M. de J.V.
and Guimar{\~a}es, J.R. da S.
and Coelho, L. de S.
and Matos, F.D. de A.
and Wittmann, F.
and Mogoll{\'o}n, H.F.
and Damasco, G.
and D{\'a}vila, N.
and Garc{\'i}a-Villacorta, R.
and Coronado, E.N.H.
and Emilio, T.
and Filho, D. de A.L.
and Schietti, J.
and Souza, P.
and Targhetta, N.
and Comiskey, J.A.
and Marimon, B.S.
and Marimon, B.-H.
and Neill, D.
and Alonso, A.
and Arroyo, L.
and Carvalho, F.A.
and de Souza, F.C.
and Dallmeier, F.
and Pansonato, M.P.
and Duivenvoorden, J.F.
and Fine, P.V.A.
and Stevenson, P.R.
and Araujo-Murakami, A.
and Aymard C., G.A.
and Baraloto, C.
and do Amaral, D.D.
and Engel, J.
and Henkel, T.W.
and Maas, P.
and Petronelli, P.
and Revilla, J.D.C.
and Stropp, J.
and Daly, D.
and Gribel, R.
and Paredes, M.R.
and Silveira, M.
and Thomas-Caesar, R.
and Baker, T.R.
and da Silva, N.F.
and Ferreira, L.V.
and Peres, C.A.
and Silman, M.R.
and Cer{\'o}n, C.
and Valverde, F.C.
and Di Fiore, A.
and Jimenez, E.M.
and Mora, M.C.P.
and Toledo, M.
and Barbosa, E.M.
and Bonates, L.C. de M.
and Arboleda, N.C.
and Farias, E. de S.
and Fuentes, A.
and Guillaumet, J.-L.
and J{\o}rgensen, P.M.
and Malhi, Y.
and de Andrade Miranda, I.P.
and Phillips, J.F.
and Prieto, A.
and Rudas, A.
and Ruschel, A.R.
and Silva, N.
and von Hildebrand, P.
and Vos, V.A.
and Zent, E.L.
and Zent, S.
and Cintra, B.B.L.
and Nascimento, M.T.
and Oliveira, A.A.
and Ramirez-Angulo, H.
and Ramos, J.F.
and Rivas, G.
and Sch{\"o}ngart, J.
and Sierra, R.
and Tirado, M.
and van der Heijden, G.
and Torre, E.V.
and Wang, O.
and Young, K.R.
and Baider, C.
and Cano, A.
and Farfan-Rios, W.
and Ferreira, C.
and Hoffman, B.
and Mendoza, C.
and Mesones, I.
and Torres-Lezama, A.
and Medina, M.N.U.
and van Andel, T.R.
and Villarroel, D.
and Zagt, R.
and Alexiades, M.N.
and Balslev, H.
and Garcia-Cabrera, K.
and Gonzales, T.
and Hernandez, L.
and Huamantupa-Chuquimaco, I.
and Manzatto, A.G.
and Milliken, W.
and Cuenca, W.P.
and Pansini, S.
and Pauletto, D.
and Arevalo, F.R.
and Reis, N.F.C.
and Sampaio, A.F.
and Giraldo, L.E.U.
and Sandoval, E.H.V.
and Gamarra, L.V.
and Vela, C.I.A.
and ter Steege, H.",
title="Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition",
journal="Science",
year="2017",
volume="355",
number="6328",
pages="925--931",
abstract="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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doi="10.1126/science.aal0157",
opturl="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6328/925.abstract"
}